i met james joyce on the bus

woke up late couldn't find jacket - it was in the jacket closet, but it's not my house so why would i look there?- slowly wake up to radiohead made it out the door early YES time for coffee. long line bad coffee sugar packets in hand straw lid people standing next to me i used to know and they don't recognize me story of my life. grab my coffee pour in sugar cram lid on top and out the door to the bus will i make it can i make it i hope i make it yes yes i made it my legs are cold why did i wear a skirt today two minutes early and please let me take my coffee on the bus just this once i'll love you forever and only take your bus from now on please thank you. on the bus i'm so clumsy and tired my back aches did i sleep funny last night? did i have bad dreams last night yes i did bad dreams and why why can't i sit up straight i'm so tired i'm so glad i brought a straw for my coffee but ow flabbergast it all i just burnt my tongue stupid stupid stupid ow. thank God for music so calming and relaxing and helps me order myself what will i have to do at work today don't let it be a repeat of the last two weeks of hell i've been going through please. you really got a hold on me why do i like this version better than the original or even the beatles because the beatles sang this song about drugs and lsd and smokey & the robinsons well they're not zooey deschanel or m. ward that's why you crooning dressed-up morons that's why. this music is too wakeuppy this morning come on sally give me something calmer something like yes yes this is it thank you no words for me to get caught up in just rhythm and the beautiful full tones of the saxyphone oh how i love the sound nothing compares to my ears i could listen to this forever.