Why don’t I take those long walks
walks around the lovely, multivarious
neighborhoods in my lovely city like
I used to do on such a regular basis;
locales I’d see so often? But now,
for so many of them it’s been years,
or as long as a decade, like the duration
it’s been since I’ve taken that short hike
over Mount Tamalpais to the amphitheater,
or driven down or up any stretch of High
way One, felt the warm sand between
my toes traipsing Grey Whale Cove half-
naked or crossing over the Golden Gate
Bridge or the Bay Bridge. No more excuses!
