Monday, Monday

     I am sitting in my living room. Waiting. It's 11:10 PM. Any minute now, a great inspiration will hit me. While I wait, I'll tell you a little about my day.
     This morning at 8 AM, I arrived in Pendleton, Indiana for a dental appointment. It was a simple cleaning but I dreaded it anyway.
     Kim, the hygienist was dressed in blue gray scrubs - metallic. As she put on her miner's head lamp to go exploring in the deep cave of my mouth, she handed me a pair of dark glasses. "You might want to put these on to protect your eyes from my light," she said. At first I put the dark glasses over my regular eye glasses, just being a goof! Then I got serious and took my eyeglasses off and put on the cool shades.
     Without my glasses, things up close look blurry. I lay in the chair, Kim the hygienist took out her digging tool and began prowling through my teeth. My mind wondered, pondering the day ahead, the beautiful fall morning, what I might have for breakfast after my dental appointment, and then I looked up at blurry Kim, dressed in metal and her Cyclops light and I began to imagine that I was way in the future and a robot, all metal and lights, was cleaning my teeth. It felt scary and funny, all at the same time. My mind messes with me like that sometimes.  Then I got a cramp in my foot.  My body fights back.