A Single Person Lives Here

 

Hi there,

 

This is a poem I wrote a few years ago exalting one of the advantages of living alone.

 

I don't really need to change my style of living, since I'll continue living alone even after I get married in a week or two.  I like the freedom. So does my guy.
What other ways can we celebrate Independence Day?
Even if it's for five minutes? Even if it's just in a daydream?

 Listen to it read here

 

A Single Person Lives Here  

 

I am sitting in the living room 
contemplating the yoga mat

to the right of my chair.

It remains there even after I complete the

downward facing dog and forward fold .

No need to roll and store it.

I live alone.

 

 

I don’t need to change habits

that aren’t in accordance
the Good Housekeeping

Seal of Approval.
Ones that would bother another.

 

The water pick is oddly stationed in the kitchen

instead of the bathroom
where many would decree it belongs.

Cats are given permission to

sit on the dining room table

like feline centerpieces flaunting
 validated entitlement. 

A variety of socks have been recklessly

dropped in various coordinates of the home,

left for weeks, 
in the cursive sock spelling of
"So?"

I can’t imagine having to

spend time removing dust bunnies

 from underneath the sofa.

Always putting the coffee cups back,

  segregated symmetrically

from the drinking glasses.

 

Having the romaine stationed

in the crisper drawer when

it looks more festive

unpackaged on the second shelf

close to things staring out of foggy,

green containers the have been in too long.

My time is better spent 
sitting on the back patio noticing the sky,

the blue slice above the telephone lines,

ushering a cloud through

on its way to evaporation.

Or lying on the bed rereading Only Cowgirls Get the Blues

with the little cat asleep on my legs and the big cat
on the pillow beside me.   

A breeze dusts over my face.

.

I don’t fall prey to scolding myself

or comparing myself to the ordered and exact,

because I decide I am serving an important

 purpose.

I am illustrating that single people are artists 
simply by how they order their mess
 and how they mess their order.

 

Their homes are actually art installations.

The plaque on the exhibit would read,
An Artist Lives Here,

 and the on-lookers
the ones who are living by themselves,

the ones I imagine are there observing

this thoughtful masterpiece ... 

 nod and understand.

 

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