First day of Spring

I ride to work
whizzing down the hill
in the sunshine,
all aglow from an early morning yoga practice.
There are iridescent green leaves
and blossom buds on trees
that line a street I never noticed before
all is full of love...

I get to shop,
open the door, wide open,
serve a lovely woman
who has never been into the store before.
Give her a bag of apricots from Ben's farm
as a 'welcome to the store' kind of gesture
and as we are talking,
a dog
loose off the lead
running a little frantically about the street
does a giant poo
right in the middle
of the doormat.

The owner of the dog
is no where to be seen.
I stand out side the door of the store
arms crossed.
I push the doormat away from the door
with my foot.
I wait
and I wait.
Eventually I see the owner
in a cafe
I yell (Nicely)
"Hi, Is that your dog?"
He sunders over to me..
"yeah!"
" Well he did a poo on my doormat"
I look down at the giant pile of reconstituted tinned meat.
By now some people are giggling
as they pile into a 4 wheel drive.
"Yeah!" says owner
"yep" I say
"can you clean it up?" I ask.

So he walks over
to me
picks up the mat
walks to the middle of the road
and stops.
Looks about then
back at all of us on the footpath
and keeps walking to the other side of the road
he stands there for a bit
and turns the mat upside down
and drops the poo in the bin..
then walks back
and THROWS the mat at me!


I go inside
and do what any normal
person would do
I
light
an
incense..