Two Cups

It is dark
About 7 pm
I am watching
Wallander with sub
Titles in English about
To drink my second cup
Of tea with milk a luxury I
Allow myself this evening as
The plot and acting are adult
Rather than the usual seventh-
Grade level of American shows
Though I do not open my pack
Of shortbread cookies which
I am saving to have two with
My tea Thanksgiving Eve
Day and day after good
To anticipate as I look
Out my windows at
The dark silence
From above as
The dogs and
Couple have
Gone away
Awhile but
Two cups
Seems
Fair.
Simple
Pleasures
For a pretty
Simple old man
Missing company
Each evening and yet
Not averse to a second
Cup of hot tea and good
Show to watch listening to
The sounds of silence as
I have paused the show
To write this but can
Not seem to end it
So ... hmmm ... it
Occurs to me
I have lots
More to
See
And do.
I have the
Shortbread
Cookies to eat
And poems unwritten.