Things to do before 25 or,
How to avoid a quarter-life crisis

#1, how-to
Learn to ride a bike
(yes, indeed, I never did)
--what part of CITY don't
you understand?

Number 2, in no order,
learn how-to
swim
like a fish
or at least
a non-drowning
human.

No. after-two,
(and this is where
it gets really cool)
Get published--
no
scratch that
Send stuff for publication

as the rule goes with lists,
(in case you're one of those,
you know,
people who don't make lists)
you can't put an item down
if you can't make it happen
yourself...

So there.

And from there
Number 4our,
Get closer to "Dr"
And be not a pupil
but the MASTER
(haha)
of something,
though not
the universe
--and do an evil laugh

And to even out
with an odd number,
5: be on my own to
checking off my list
Just to start on
a positive:
CHECK.


A-MUSE-ing.

It's funny to read about yourself
in the third person
like you're a character
in someone else's story

Being verbally
physically
detached
from your own
name
It's like you're made up
--a creation
(by any other word...)

Finding yourself
to be iconic, somehow
or worth some
line off someone's
pen

But not to dwell
that I'm some kind
of special device
that creates lines
and evokes
creation

We'll just stop there
and say
thanks,
for thinking of me
and penning me
so well.