Practice

Practice (day-off)
By Jordan Brooks
Nov. 11, 2016.

Thursday, during the daytime,
I took off school,
and I awoke, had breakfast and went back to sleep,
and woke-up around 10am

to start working on my writing,
hoping I'd find myself better at it now,
than I was yesterday,
when I looked at it, and thought

that it wasn't very good.

I kept my eyes open, looking for noteworthy signs
of goodness,
and something surfaced, I had finished,
I thought it was adequate (not great).

Setting it aside,
I worked on another,
not much better than
the last one I wrote,

not as good as years ago.
Those days, I did alright
These days, I have to practice,
and try to get better;

the treasured item,
is that I'm still writing:
I'm still lifting the weights,
I'm not at home not-exercising.

I had a practice day-off,
I should buy a drink for a pretty girl,
a coffee,
after I tell her hello

...

Jordan.