one bad habit

here's my routine, i have retired
from the late scene
when midnight rings i'm in bed listening
i wake up at five; run by the river
till the sunrise as ev'ry body knows,
i'm disciplined

i just have one bad habit, only
one bad habit
yes i do, yes indeed i do
i just have one bad habit, only
one bad habit and it's you..
~ michael franks

the habit that inhabits me the most is thought..
the habit of thought..
the rabid, habit of thought..
and not only thought for thought's sake..
thought as creating a self..
a person..
a me..
the habit of me..
one bad habit..
and it's me!

as i move through the streets of seattle..
it is apparent that habit is rampant..
smoking,
drinking..alcohol, coffee..plastic water..
and afterwards, the habit of littering..
the remains of the day..and night..

how about shopping?
consuming, dooming all that stuff
to come home and live with me !

cell phones..now there's a habit..
everyone is talking, listening..
reaching out ..
there is a woman i met
who uses the cell phone
as protection -
when she walks to work in the early hours,
she pretends to speak with someone..

will shakespere says:
nothing is either good nor bad,
but thinking makes it so..
~ hamlet

so when does a habit turn bad?
when we make it so..
ah! so!

also from hamlet..
to be or not to be
me.. the habit of me..
thinking makes it so!