Shake hands with your neighbor
as though you are in a commercial,
pickpocket love filling every square inch
of the paper, express your shame about
racism, colorism, classism, discrimination
and dedicate your newfound knowledge to
all lives matter.
Month: October 2020
Take Advice Upside Down
Take the advice of others upside down,
kindly roll down the window and offer a ride
for each unwanted opinion while employing
lots of footnotes then toss some salt
over each shoulder for good measure.
Hypnotize Happiness
Misremember mistreatment
with your dying breaths, break
every possible barrier while describing
your lack of self-worth while hopping
on one foot, hypnotize happiness
using only two-syllable words.
A Message In A Bottle
Nervously kid about everything
while looking in the mirror
blandly relate an anecdote
about fearlessness in the form
of a message in a bottle
get distracted by another person’s
opinion as though you were
the person you most admire.
Spend Your Time Wisely
Calculate time without haste, pretend
you don’t care about rushing while
pretending no one is watching, invest
in patience, dashingly spend your time wisely
as though giving directions to a snail.
Dealing with Boredom
Throw a friendly arm around boredom
while sweating profusely, overthink
reading a book, never quite getting to
the point of someone else’s imagination
move blocks of apps around on your
phone to add a little excitement.
Untitled
Heavily edit your comments about
harming yourself as if you are freezing
to death cut off all considerations of
ending the temporary pain while requesting
help reveal the truth about quietly battling
mental illness in the trunk of your car.
Birthday Love
Make a big deal about your birthday
on a manual typewriter, present
hairsplitting arguments about celebrating
your special day while walking around
in circles, throw yourself a surprise party
every day on your birthday month.
In The Face of Failure
Get up in the face of failure
using good ole’ consistency; try
and deflate “the sky is the limit” balloons
of limitations placed on dreams
challenge the conventional wisdom
about your potential sharpening your skills
with only one positive move per day
for three weeks to form a good habit.
Embalm Anxiety
Embalm anxiety making every line
a question, choose a position
on happiness in blank verse
hide behind fearlessness, then
crumple it up and try again
Have A Little Fun
Talk as fast as you can about water
using ridiculous words you found
in the thesaurus tell a boring story
about thirst as the voiceover to a movie.
Uniqueness
Originality, individuality
the meaning of greatness
and its possibilities