Make use of the things around you.
This light rain
outside the window, for one.
This cigarette between my fingers,
these feet on the couch.
The faint sound of rock-and-roll,
the red Ferrari in my head.
The woman bumping
drunkenly around in the kitchen . . .
put it all in,
make use.
~ from A New Path To The Waterfall (The Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1989)Sunday Night by Raymond Carver
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