A Short List of Polite Suggestions

Quit your job
go thirsty
hungry
go mad

find the gentle caress of floors
as the sun makes it's move toward the horizon

fall asleep by the light
of cheap prayer candles
purchased from the grocery down the street

spend languid afternoons
charting out the atlas
of the body of your lover

replace your furniture
with books, bottles, papers, ashtrays
rantings scrawled in the margins
of free newspapers

meet the world with eyes full of steely determination
and unbearable sympathy

weep uncontrollably at the beauty and hopelessness of it all

on some strange night
some foreign morning
face your own death
reveal it's unbelievable humor
the humor of death
and of living