One of my favorite poems

Single

No one could believe Jenny

Was happy living alone

So she soberly accepted their sympathy

Like she accepted other

White Elephants

She put in a big box

In the back closet

And thanked them very much

Then...clicked the lock quick

As if hiding a secret

And ate a big salad

In front of the whales and dolphins

On PBS

And spent an hour

At her keyboard

Processing her words

And sat twenty minutes

At the window

Watching the storm dance branches

And stayed on the phone

An hour and a half

Until a hundred hungry children

Were fed

And then took a bath

Three chapters long

And slept smiling and sprawled

In her queen sized bed.

~Carol Lynn Pearson