for Peter Gizzi
(a send-up of his poem “In Defense of Nothing”
in which the first two words of each line are
the same as in each line of his)
I guess it is a big weather day today here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I guess that most businesses are closing around 3pm when the storm is
expected to arrive.
I guess the “bomb cyclone” is not affecting Tu Lan which, fortunately for me,
is where I shall grab a late lunch.
The present can be regifted; history repeats itself (we just had the wettest
day on record only a few days ago).
It’s hard when one is living as I am to say that any of this is bad news.
This sky looks ominous, but the sun is shining just as much somewhere behind
the darkening of it.
