How to Get a Parking Spot

A lot of proper preparation

Is done approximately half

A day before.

Stand up

Before your sleepy eyes drift...back to your oasis

Of pillows and sheets;

Stand up,

Run through your future twenty-four hours

And recall step

By step what you need

And once everything is packed, in a

Conspicuous place, then you may...drift

Back to your...room, back to your....bed.

This is the least important,

But important none the less:

Head to bed with an olive branch wrapped about your head,

Tomorrow you can fight the swarm.

And once the drums of your radio

Summon you to war,

Leap from your bed, dash

To the shower, clean your weapons:

Your hands, your feet, your MIND!

Get dressed, after all,

The parking lot won't accept

You naked.

Haul your goods to the car, after

A quick breakfast.

Drive the speed limit,

Drive assertively, as if your

Chariot's second wheel

Threatened to fall

Off.

Arrive at your favorite lot

Earnestly seeking that  prized space like

A pilgrim seeks the sacred gate.

Park gracefully, between two white walls

That will guard your chariot but

Park efficiently;

After all, you didn't come all this way

Just for a parking space.