I'm free as a bird! I can eat anything- I don't have to eat- I don't have to cook. I can keep my house a pig's pen! I don't have to clean up anybody else's mess, Or wash any of their dirty clothes, Or cook for them, Or mend for them, Or shop for them.... Or I can keep my house spic and span, shiny and clean, and know that nobody will mess it up, or dirty a dish, or dirty a cup, or dirty a sock, or dirty a towel, or dirty the floor, or dirty anything....! I can wake up when I want, I can sleep when I want, I can walk around the house stark naked, I can sit at my computer the same way, I can watch anything I want on TV, I can shut the TV whenever I want, I can roll around in a huge bed without bumping into somebody smelly, Or somebody snoring, Or somebody staring, Or somebody waiting to ask for something... I can stay on my computer for hours and hours, without explaining why... I can stay for days at peace at home- Nobody will interrupt my thoughts.. While reading a book, Or praying, Or watching something, Or writing something, Or making something, Or cooking something, Or sewing something, Or painting something... Or doing nothing. And, I can wear anything I want that I don't dare wear outside; I can shut off the phones and pretend I wasn't home.. ( Let them worry! Let them wonder!!) I don't have to shut the bedroom door, I don't have to shut the bathroom door, I don't have to shut up... I can talk to myself, Or talk on the phone for hours... I can act silly, Or belly dance and applaud myself with enthusiasm. I can stand on my head, I can croak a song, to use my vocal chords so they won't become 'rusty.' I can plan day trips, And go freely alone, And go abroad, without burdens and excess baggage, And return, while everybody will think I was at home all the time....! And, I can can it all, and get a mate, to make my life miserable again!!! h.n.
