How Do You Like Austin?
Where am I?
In a room somewhere on the planet.
Is anything outside?
Don’t know. Doesn’t matter.
Have always lived inside.
The rest being interlude.
How do you like your new home?
It’s still new, may always be.
I visit myself from time to time
Being careful not to startle the walls
Or step too confidently on the carpet.
But isn’t it different from New York?
I am different from them both.
Once the sightseeing is done,
There is really no place
That is not home.
And the weather?
Not where I am,
But what I do
Will shape the climate.
If too hot, I will hide indoors.
I’m good at hiding anywhere.
3/9, 3/11/02, 4/6/07
Copyright 2002, 2007 by Maurice Leiter
Posted with permission.
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