What you feel now*
Moving slower than normal
Loving instruments rarely played
Wearing really old shoes
Letting sane friends go crazy
Living with clean sofas and dirty bathrooms
Being happily alone
Drinking champagne straight from the bottle
Running towards and away, a little at a time
Letting my roots show
Choosing my dog over my friends
Embracing three-drink idealism AND three-drink realism
Wearing berets
Letting a mess be a mess


*An ode to Cheryl Lynn's "Got To Be Real"