COFFEE

I don't feel like doing all that creative stuff in the early afternoon. It doesn't even occur to me to do that then. But now, at 10:30, 11:30, midnight, I start thinking, what am I going to do tonight? Am I going to write, or am I going to make a tape, or play the piano? Sometimes I have a strong cup of coffee before I go to bed. It doesn't wake me up. it soothes me. That's what I want at that hour. I don't want a cup of hot milk, I want a cup of coffee. And people say, "I can't believe you're doing that at 6:00 AM. I can't believe you're drinking our go-to-work coffee." And I say,

"Well, that's because you are you. And I am me."