The Setup.

Today,

my friend

set me up on a date

with myself.

She gave me

a gift card to Jamba Juice

and a gift card to Barnes & Noble

and made me promise

that I'd do it.

I looked forward to it

all day.

And as soon as work was done,

I untucked my shirt,

and went on my date.

I got the pomegranate flavored one,

because I do that.

I listened to

sad jazz music

in the car.

I looked at every book

at Barnes & Noble.

I thought about getting

a little booklet

of self-scoring personality tests,

a book about astronomy,

The Feminine Mystique,

a coffee table book

of all the covers

of National Geographic.

I bought

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl,

but not before

I lamented to myself

that book stores

have more tricks than books,

that the Fiction and Literature section

is more fiction than literature,

and is smaller than

the teen paranormal romance section.

But, anyway.

It was probably
the most successful setup
I've ever been on.