THANKS A MILLION

Thank you.

No - THANK you.

You've been so good to me

so kind.

You've shown me

just as you so often do

how wrong I am

how awful and stupid

and reprehensible

and just plain wrong

I so frequently am

in so many ways:

when I breathe

when I walk

as I speak

while I eat

- I didn't even KNOW there was a right way to eat Wheaties.

Thank you for clarifying that point.

THANK you.

If not for you

I'd have sat in ignorance about the state of my unkempt hair

how I was holding up the sidewalk

that I should know at least a little conversational German.

I could have lived my life

blatantly unaware

of the travesty

that was me.

You fixed that

and for THAT

I thank you.