Cows

For me, watching cows

is relaxing.

It's like listening to Mozart.

Or sitting next to a burbling stream.

Cows are slow and methodical.

They are predictable. 

They like same-ness.

They like to be fed at the same time each day

by the same people

in the same truck

wearing the same coat.

And if, you're different

or in a different truck

with a different coat,

cows are not sure of you. 

Certainly not sure

of a little boy

who is never quiet

and never still.

He sure is cute though, 

isn't he?

Cows don't like hands.

Maybe they're on to something. 

I visit the cows up the road from us at least once a day. 

I'd like to think that they know me by now,

that I'm part of their "regular".

They're sure part of my "regular".

I park my car in the same spot.

I sit in the same spot on the new spring grass.

And I watch.

And, slowly, I relax. 

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