New computer. Downloading Chrome
and the Carbonite files now.
New is exciting. Familiar is comfortable.
New is fear-inducing. Familiar is getting by
even with problems growing in severity.

New food plan. More natural stuff,
goodbye to wheat, pretty much to beef,
to corn-can-you-believe-that!!,
to milk, to 12-hour energy drinks
though I didn’t have the nerve even to ask
if I could have that.
New is exciting. Familiar is comfortable.
New is fear-inducing. Familiar is getting by
even with problems growing in severity.

Old car, creeping up on a hundred thousand,
damaged like you would not believe,
scrapes and dings and how-the-heck-
did-you-do that? Full trunk. Three things
in that car I’m sure, but lost.
One of them for three years.
New car. Ego builder. But oh,
expecting that first ding,
dreading a scrape. Deciding which one.
New is exciting. Familiar is comfortable.
New is fear-inducing. Familiar is getting by
even with problems growing in severity.

Nothing is permanent except change.
And no matter what my daddy used to say
occasionally there really is something
new and improved. God, let me be open,
let me accept what I have and know,
new or old, it is good.