I am me and you are you

An array of shapes, a variety of hues

Sitting together at Life’s pews.

The skin layer of my identity:

Swiss missus in cowboy country

Full surround sound eccentricity!

Deep down I clown around,

Though my nature is slow as the blazes

In digesting any existential phases.

I love my Pookie,

He is a cat;

In my next life I shall be just that.

I have many names

– Given ones, invented fames

Or borrowed from my ancestors’ lanes.

I have my doubts and limitations

The occasional meltdown and frustrations

And a rainbow of creations.

With me you will find it usually to be

All in, flat out,

Or dilly dallying about.