The Benefits of an Active Lifestyle

You seem to like things the most
if you can do them while you're sitting,
Father said. It doesn't seem like it's
the books you're reading that give
you pleasure, but that you read them
while you're sitting down. You
get most of your satisfaction from doing
things that require very little physical effort.
It's not that your brain needs to be filled
with new facts, but that you have grown
accustomed to being lazy. You can learn
just as much from being active. And since
that'll put you with other active people,
none of them will have the time to sit down
& read a book to prove that the information you got was wrong.

Hal Sirowitz

I'm wearing your jacket to bed tonight
and I will get too hot,
I know this.
I just cannot take it off
even if it doesn't smell like you.
I want to be romantic,
I want to be romantic with you.
I want to lay in bed and have my ceiling
open up to stars,
float on a magic carpet to Niagara falls,
share a bottle of wine
while shivering in the mist
warming up to your touch,
your taste,
the small of your back against my lips.
One day we will be old together
and I will lean over and kiss your shoulder
because love knows no age
and we won't be old but young
as we fade away.
The song is ending on the radio,
and how we will imitate the lovers before us
in our return to nothingness.
It meant something, I hope,
that is what I'll think when we fade away.