if not for pickpockets

i remember

Rodney Dangerfield, saying

that if not

for pickpockets,

i wouldn't have

a sex life,

and now that i'm older

food has

replaced sex.

it's to the point, he says,

that i've put a mirror

over my kitchen

table in the morning 

as i eat my Cheerios

and toast.

we miss Rodney

among other things.