Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day so you don't overeat.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40 and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms dreams or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.