adj: [yoo-də-MAH-nik] Conducive to happiness

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A cloudy day,
dry in our city while
snow bombards
the Sierra,

and warmish,
enough so that some
of us remove our
scarves, our gloves,

but we happily wear
our smiles as we follow
Shelley through
a morning’s exercise,

sitting sometimes,
standing at others,
as 1964 hits bounce
around us—

of course,
She Loves You

of course, you
Can’t Buy Me Love

And when the
opening notes of
Twist and Shout
twang in our ears,

Shelley calls out,
Dance! and we do.
twisting like
teeny boppers,

all us happy,
happy oldies.