I have to have an Early Start. I wriggle into the New Day
like my favorite pair of yellow pants. My apartment
is my CNN Newsroom and the female anchor
scratches in her litter box. At This Hour
I always dance in front of my SAD lamp,
because “Dance in front of SAD lamp”
is always on my To Do list. My To Do List
also says, “why not put on your platform Crocs
and purple sweat shorts and walk Inside
Politics? Then move your body Right Now
with Brianna Keilar or else!” My kitchen
is my CNN Newsroom, and the potatoes are sprouting.
Every day, I force myself to take an absurdly long walk.
I follow The Lead with Jake Tapper. I am at the park
with Jake Tapper. The lake with Jake Tapper.
To get back home, I usually cut through
the Lutheran church parking lot but the boys
in my neighborhood designed a series of tunnels
in the snowplowed snow and now it was a full out war
out there, an entire Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
They were so small. To them the parking lot
was more like a Situation World.
I don’t want to be this Erin Burnett OutFront,
but when your To Do list says, “stare deep
into all Anderson Cooper 360 degrees of yourself
without looking away,” you do it. You were a child
on whom childhood was wasted. Your childhood
crush was Brian Williams. You cry watching
the boys have their snowball fight. It’s okay
that it took you this long to find a rhythm.
This is your Cuomo Prime Time. It’s only
CNN Tonight until it’s CNN tomorrow.