No sipping Northeast Coffee latte supreme with whipped cream
No texting someone I’ll see in ten minutes
No zoning out to Diane Rehm
No penciling out the evening workout on a crumpled scratch pad
No returning that phone call to Grushenka Smith
No smoking the 5th and 6th cigarettes of the day
No daydreaming about ______________
No singing at 76 decibels of of Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street”
No listening to audio lectures on Fernando Pessoa
No reading two paragraphs of Dear Layla on a Smart Phone
No flipping through Bengali vocab flash cards
No voicing via digital tape recorder of random “to do’s” lest I forget
No munching on the best Crab Rangoon in the city
Just this–
Drive the car
* Ekāgratā, Sanskrit. One-pointedness, doing only one thing at a time, concentrating upon a single object or task. – Diana Morrison, A Glossary of Sanskrit from the Spiritual Tradition of India (Nilgiri Press, 1977).
