No Other Play

an hour in the dentist's chair two masked experts looming over me manipulating power equipment in my mouth hard to relax the new tooth better I have to watch out for a tendency to pull things down on top of me when they don't go my way, lose completely if I can't win. Lagging in a teenage sailing race I tried to make my boat capsize. Frustrated casting "Butter Boy" I gave the problem a week, groused, got depressed, realized there is nothing else I want to do, no other play, no trip, nothing else as interesting to do with Alfred; then acted: further auditions tonight. Forward! The two cats joined us gazing at the moon. thin cool sunshine I plant bright primroses as last year's bloom again our town's best restaurant tries amateur beside New York dinner parties unimagined can I love country living pastoral quiet peace enough