Every day or nearly every day

I walk around Waterlook Park and nearly always

there will be someone else walking in the opposite

direction, we'll have arrived at roughly the same time

at different gates, and they'll go clockwise and I'll go

the other way and it's reassuring to have this synchronicity,

it's not the same if there's not someone else who has made 

the same decision today, to come to the park, and walk 

around the gravel perimiter three or four times.

When I drink on my own the last thing I do before going to bed

is to wash up the wine glass and put any bottles in the recycling

it's good to wake up and not to think about all of that.

I like getting out of bed and immediately focus

on the most exciting thing that will happen that day,

today I will rewatch a film I love because I keep thinking

about the music played during the end credits and now

I am older than the main characters so it's mostly

a completely different film now.