woken by the day

 Sundays laziness and the comfort of a warm bed with three blankets
The knowledge of the biting cold air outside the bed
Stay in the bed, and enjoy the warmth, the personal body warmth, the comfort.

Stay too long, feel guilty, go downstairs, bathroom,
Make the breakfast, unscrew the coffee maker,
Rinse it roughly, fill with water start the coffee grinder, hold the sieve, pull the lever

Water for the eggs in the little pan, turn on the gas,
Assemble the coffee maker, put it on the heat too,
Get a plate, three eggs from the fridge, an avocado, a knife, a fork, a spoon

The last avocado from the green net, two toast slices
cut the avocado, throw away its huge seed
water boils now, add salt and vinegar, coffee burbles now, turn the gas down

Crack the eggs on edge of the pan, throw them into the bubbles,
depress the lever on the toaster, scoop out the avocado's flesh,
fill the coffee into the insulated mug, wash the avocado–scooping spoon

Leave that spoon on the drying rack, get the scoop for the eggs
the toaster pops, catch the two slices, apply butter,
use the scoop to catch the three poached eggs and drop them on the buttered toast

Rinse the scoop, rinse the pan and put them to dry on the rack,
take the plate with the glass mug of coffee, knife, fork, toast eggs and avocado
upstairs to the bedroom table and look out of the verandah window at a clear day

Enjoy the breakfast, take the pills, two things against high blood pressure and four vitamins, all per doctors orders.

Finish the coffee and make a telephone call to the brother in Ireland.