Sixteen enormous blessings
lying in bed listening to the rain
on the first night of the rainy seasongetting laid, nine hours of sleep,
all kinds of eucalyptus trees, fresh coffee beansa decline in the price of avacados,
the privilege of erect posture,
the invention of the xerox machineskillful evasion of all varieties
of social commitment, the clap, jury duty,
automobile ownership and hepatitisencountering a viola da gambist
whose finesse on the instrument
exceeds that of a sinking rowboatmotorcycles, the joys of samadhi,
my everyday mind