Cancelled plans

I am the one you see with a paper appointment book.  No IPad.  A cell phone that is the least complicated one I can find.  There is satisfaction in paper, even though I write on the computer.  My longhand is pretty much illegible, even to me.  Still, there*s something about a paper appointment book.  It allows me to cross things out,,, in crayon.

I cancelled the plans

For today.

I still must learn

How to schedule space

For myself.

The workshop years ago

Encouraged writing

Appointments with myself

On the calendar

In ink,

Permanent marker,

Even crayon.

Anything but pencil.

Certainly

Nothing erasable.

I still must learn

To schedule space

For myself.

But still…

I cancelled the plans

For today,

Drew a curlicue line

Through them

In crayon.