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The poetic city: “A Day Like Today 4/24/17”

Dec 17, 2018 • City Contexts, Creative Writing, Health

WWOZ, always helping to make a beautiful day a perfect day (Photo: WWOZ).

A Day Like Today 4/24/17

I woke up to a perfect day.
The kind of day that makes
me feel sorry for myself and
question every choice I ever
made that resulted in being
inside instead of outside
on a day like today.
As I drove to work down Willow St
I consoled myself with the depth of
light and shadow under the oak arbor,
the hot funky jazz playing on OZ,
and thoughts of the miraculous
nature of pure being.
Then, I realized that no matter
how many days such as this
I have enjoyed in my life,
it will never feel like enough
on a day like today.

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