Spontaneity

has always been hard for me.

I love creative types,

envy them, really.

Their quippy words and phrases–

Creatives just shake them off

so easily,

naturally,

like my dog shakes off rain—

unconcerned

for bystanders,

for carpets or walls.

Predictability

is a good thing too, right?

I mean, we need patterns sometimes.

A kind of checkerboard

to guide our steps.

Back , two, three.

Left, two three—

we really should waltz

more often, Darling.