Crows Eating Toast

First, start with a single word, or two;
a moment witnessed by chance,
a thought, or a few thoughts,
fleeting or studied,
strung together with conjunctions
and easy on the eyes.

Use what’s familiar.
Making toast is always good, or the rain,
both are something that happens to all at some point.
Add a crow or raven if you can,
especially if there’s a flock of them.
They can be harbingers of doom,
or comedians looking for an audience.

You can talk about your old father,
bent like a birch after a long winter,
but as long as it doesn’t drone on,
causing your jealous therapist
to accuse you of robbery.

And always remember -
there have been worse poems written,
than ones with crows eating toast in the rain,
on a birch bent by winter.