Take the Moments

Take the moments, add that time there was a lady Walking up to the grocery store. The balloon boy drama. The mother and her baby strolling Quite in their worlds, smiling. Jonbenet Ramsey, Oprah, David Letterman, OJ, The Simpsons and the Family Guy. When you woke up and saw your face For the 6,000th morning in a row And didn’t know it to celebrate. The New Moon & Twilight events The nails that keep growing longer As we keep growing older, that nonsense. Oh but we are clear about change In hair color, toupee, and make up Plastic on the nails, Veneer on the teeth. Shakespeare’s seven stages of man Just doing the same things, we Are looking at each other, all. Eating, passing through the living room A thousandth time, although -- This moment comes only once.