Chickpea curry, homemade lassi
and good spicy rice.
A Wednesday night dinner,
perfectly timed, laid out
before you and companions
full of talk and gentle opinion.
Can you imagine a better life
than this?  Of course you can…

but it’s not something
you feel like doing,
really, not a thing you feel like doing
at all tonight.

Burn one, drink one, and move into the flow
of talk and ease for once,
for once not caring for anything
but this feeling
of being pleasantly full.

— with thanks to Lea, Victor, and Mike