Whim

The only thing I had scheduled for today was cancelled... so I went grocery shopping and, on a whim, decided to get a flu shot.  I get one every other year or two it seems.  Then I came home and watched a sharp shinned hawk eat a mid-afternoon snack as he sat on a tree branch right outside the dining room window.  I think it was a sharp shinned hawk anyway... couldn*t see his knees much less his shins.  Every day that is graced with a hawk sighting counts as good.

I got the flu shot today

On a whim.

It was available

At the pharmacy

Next to the milk cooler

In the grocery store.

In the little inoculation room

There was a list

Of possible inoculations.

I perused the list just like

I consider all the yogurt

In the yogurt aisle.

I always choose Yoplait Light,

The fruity kind.

My beloved chooses

Dannon Coffee.

I considered my choices but still

I had already paid

For the flu shot.

I chose the flu shot

On a whim but still

I remember the ad

I read yesterday.

It said the pharmacy

Was my best bet

For an unspoiled inoculation.

When it appeared right there

Next to the milk

Two aisles over from the yogurt

I figured

Why not?

Indeed why not?