three things

1.
Nothing is as funny
as a summer day,
but three things
are more temperate.
One. A glass
of tap water.
Two. Your mood
after we watch
“Friends.”
And three.

2.
Three things
keep me from
emailing you.
I count bad
breath and
receding hairline
as one thing,
by the way.

3.
In all the universe
there are only three things.
This is the secret
of the universe,
or as the French call it,
“le secret de l’univers.”