Day 20 (2)

 On this day in history,

I went shopping and bought

eight, white, furled roses

and twenty daffodils

I thought about the lives of the saints

because there's one

or more for each day,

but couldn't find a good one

or one with an instructional

or inspiring story. In other news,

St Michael the Archangel is the Saint

of grocers. 

In your book in Stalin, it didn't appear

there was a thing he'd done

in particular on this date,

although he'd slept and woken

and trimmed his mustache,

or had it trimmed. For someone

somewhere this was the first day

and the last. Like every day

Like every day in history