The lesson from self-injuries last week,
that’s reinforced as I take days to heal,
is all about developing technique
to slow my speed ingesting any meal,
and with deliberate pace let acts unreel.
Okay to walk as fast as is my wont
when I set forth to shop or on a jaunt
across this town or underneath the bay,
I must observe the pavement, lest it haunt
my steps and trip my feet along the way.