Standing outside the garage

was serious

enough to 

breathe in (I calm my body)

"breathing out I smile"

but then I had to look for something poignant

with a little distance (TAB was involved)

(okay a lot of distance).

Brother don't you remember the time we stole the neighbor's mail?

Shivering and the bushes and shivering and the basketball hoop.

How absurd.

(photo of Michael Geist from The Great Canadian Pumpkin)