Sunday, January 6, 2008

Poem for 2008

Resolutionary

This is the year I'll divine with rods
get better at love, worse at eating
I'll make beelines for honeydew.
Won't touch Snickers. Won't snicker, either.
I promise I'll be good good good,
especially to my minister. If he again tells
Lorna Miller not to get divorced, I will
drive the highest road. We won't scoff over
bonbons.

Also, I will make a fish tank. The fish at
Walmart are sad. Their mouths say,
"home home home." I will spend
more time at home. No more two dollar
coffees, maybe once a moon. Cock Full o' Nuts
in the pot I own. For sure no four
dollar coffees, Vicki's Secret, Quizznos,
Gray Goose, Claiborne tops (even though she died)
or those Paige Jeans I've been dying
not to live without.

I will keep a journal: self-tabs. Next year,
I will know what I ate thought did on March 2.
Ride a unicycle. Make a marionette,
Volunteer, candy stripe, read to teh elderly.
Eat more elderly cheese,
Bleu. Try caviar, switch to skim When Maria
asks me to be her wing woman, I won't
say I know flying already.
Do what hurts. Use Fewer Band Aids.

I'll read The Unbearable Lightness of
Being
and remember how daily how light
it is to be.

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