With You

With you

        nice things seem to happen.

        Simple things, like going to the

        post office or the telephone.

        But suddenly they have become

        relevant – the most important

        part of the day.

And I am eight years old again, and the

        Saturday matinee promises a new

        adventure – the serial continues

        while the drama unfolds. Each week

        more exciting than the last. Will

        Tonto get the in time?

Nice things seem to happen –

        Like getting unexpected cards, and

        the promise of your hair, and the

        promise of tomorrow, and of April.

And I have definite expectations for April:

    a perfect time

        to eat popcorn

            and hold hands,

               and anxiously await

                 Tonto’s last-second

                    rescue of the Lone Ranger –

With you!