2022/9/4 #poetry 'What a perfect day he said' with his truncated grin 'we're alive and that's what counts' I wasn't buying in I hadn't had the best time during the week before some pleasantries from a stranger wouldn't warm my core I smiled and conceded there was only so much time before the light turned green and he would leave me far behind I appreciate his effort to share his jolly air often that is all someone needs to feel just a little care I'm not in such a snit that that will work on me I'd rather just be with it for an hour or two or three