Ditsy Day (written sometime after midnight, last night)

I've been walking  around all night,

thinking to myself:

I'm having such a Ditsy Day,

I must write a blog entry

about having a Ditsy Day.

But I've wandered around

from task to task,

wondering

what it was I was trying to get done 

in the first place, and thinking:

sometime tonight,

I should write

about having a Ditsy Day,

and putting it off,

and forgetting to do it,

then remembering,

then forgetting,

then --

I'm in bed now,

with no intent

of cranking up the laptop

and hitting the keys,

no I'll just write this note

to myself, telling myself

to write a blog entry

about having a Ditsy

Day.

We all have them.

I suspect that in the normal

monthly cycle 

of the average human, we

- both men and women -

all have an average of at least three 

Ditsy Days,

and we should get permission

to be excused from normal activity on those days,

those Ditsy Days,

--because it may hurt us,

or we may hurt someone else.

It's

sort of like when I was in high school,

in swimming class,

and girls were allowed to take

a certain number of

"resting days"

a month.  For the period

of "resting," the girl would arrive

at the pool in her one piece

gym outfit with the gunky red pants,

and declare "resting" when her name

was called in attendance, as if the collected 

assembly (all of whom wore swim suits, 

unless they too were resting)

could not tell.

Some girls were always resting, 

and if the teacher looked at an eternally

resting student quizzically and said:

"aren't you resting a bit too long?

the girl would glare,

as if to dare

the teacher to ask

for evidence.

I, for one, saw no reason

for so many Resting Days during 

the swimming semester: it was all the other sports,

like volleyball and basketball

and gymnastics that I wished

I could be excused from when

the cramps overtook my body.

Resting Days

these days

are just Ditsy Days,

days when I have to come squarely to terms

with the fact that I am becoming

my mother.

In fact,

I'm writing this on a Ditsy Day,

a day when I have to write a note

reminding myself to write

a blog entry about having a Ditsy Day.

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