I prefer small dogs to ones with large teeth.
chamber music to symphonies.
Margaret Atwood  to Joyce Carol Oates.
I prefer to keep eye glasses in my purse in case I lose a contact lens.
Seasonal colors of mountains to bleached deserts.
A ragged beach to a pristine swimming pool.
I prefer to believe that chance and luck can happen at any time.
I prefer people who don't follow like sheep.
I prefer to arrive late and leave late.
To chat amiably with doctors and dentists when I'm anxious.
I prefer to anguish over writing poems, rather than to anguish over not writing them.
I prefer someone else to arrange my birthday plans as long as it is not a surprise.
I prefer men with less facial hair but I'm slowly acclimating.
I prefer tireless negotiation instead of war.
Free speech but not talking hate.
Flowers without prickly parts.
A garden where mosquitoes don't zap me which of course they do.
I prefer archery to gun practice.
Kites to drones, airplanes to air balloons.
I prefer to hope that children will never be hungry.
I prefer not to face the reality of my demise.
I prefer to wait, ponder and hope for strength.