Animal satori

How daring are you? You have a choice: all
all in or all out, fall in or fall out. The love
that can be defined simply is not the true
love. Upon discovering this, a trumpet
of sunlight and maybe even enlightenment!
Maybe you can describe it well – but likely
not.  If you meet the true love on the road:
kill ‘im. Or some detachment to that effect.
One more time: How daring are you? The
next breath tells more than you know.

Smile, smile

Is it true if you can’t make it until death do you
in this place
you still have to serve your in-laws
breakfast
there being only one or two cafes for
Sunday out,
and them being chummy with your boss?
Eat it,
suck it up with a big smile and say,
“I always
did like you better’n him, anyway,”
or hope
they’ll be so kind to say it as he sits with the
new bride
across the street in the other place.
“Besides,” says
your ex father-in-law, “Johanna does make
a fine
bacon-and-eggs.” Your ex mother-in-law, whom
you took
to the city for the false alarm tests
to see
if that bad cough was cancer doesn’t
say much,
but she makes sure to count your tip
exactly. Can’t
be shorting you, but then again -
she IS
his mom, you know she hopes you’d do
the same
for the grandson you never gave her.
Clear off,
set the four top. Here comes the church crowd.
Smile, smile.

Letting Go

Of all the treasures in the cave,
what is the one you most desire?
Mutter your open-sesames and
rub your lamps with caution: Want
circumvents have. You may find
this magic to be unreliable.
Trust is not the point. Still, keep track
of who tells you this, who sets you
on the hero's journey, who raises
the bar - never mind the why.
Even wise words can suck you dry.
Be sure they are your own.