Big Plans for the Weekend?

Any big plans for the weekend?

“Oh nothing much,” I sigh.

“I’ll muddle through somehow.

  Just a few obligations."

I’m sure. I’m sure. What are they, pray tell?

“A little banquet on Friday…

  I must give a talk

  About how I saved those rare little animals

  from a flood, a mudslide and a big rock.”

That’s great! Good for you!

“No no. Really it’s nothing. No big to-do.

  Now Saturday! I play Polo in the championships.

  But I’ll have to leave early out of Palm Springs.

  Maybe I’ll fly or perhaps take a train?”

Oh my. Why is that?

“Well, I don’t know if I can make it -

  A soiree in the Hamptons.

  It’s my best friend’s birthday party.

  Really, I shouldn't miss it.”

Then I do hope you make it. My weekend-

“I’ll probably stay overnight?  

  Then I can catch that luncheon in NYC.

  I really don’t know, we’ll just have to see.”

The luncheon? I’ll bite. What-

“Yes. For the Top Twenty Poets of 2016.”

But it’s only-

“Then Paris that night, I’m off to my show.

  It’s my newest collection: Springtime Essence.

  Now of that I am proud, so I simply must go.”

Jeez, I was just asking a simple quest-

“Then early on Sunday I’m up and on the run.

  Take the Chunnel from France to a Christening in London.

  Just a small family affair, nothing too fancy pants!

  I’ll be a godparent to my first cousin’s eldest son.

  (He’s only fifteenth in line for prince of Great Britain.)”

Well, congrats to you? Oh look at the time!

“But thankfully I’m back in my Midwest flat

  To start back at work on Monday at noon.

  So yeah, nothing too big. Why? What will you do?

  Any big plans this weekend for you?”

No. I have not. Nothing worth saying after all of that!

“Well honest to gosh, neither do I.

  But now you know how I feel

  Every time that question is asked,

  When all I have planned

  Is reading and a few household tasks.”

        ~Volpini Amentum Arete Anemone