One.
You have to be on social media.
You have to have Netflix.
You have to buy a house.
You have to be busy.
You have to watch [X].
You have to buy [Y].
You have to join [Z].
No.
You don’t.
How many things are you doing that don’t suit you, aren’t good for you and you don’t like because someone or some culture said you had to?
How many good things have you taken on because you feel like you should but they are getting in the way of good things you want to do?
You serve the world better from a place of joy than from a place of obligation.
Two.
Every superhero needs a super villain. This is a poem about mine.
The teeth! The teeth
come from beneath
her nose
and also from above
her toes.
Basically, they’re in her mouth.
They’re not too long.
They’re not so scary.
Basically, they’re ordinary.
But she’s hairy –
very very.
And her hair is so…
er…
shiny.
But her growl –
well, her growl
is actually pretty whiny
And her size,
I’m sad to say,
Is slightly less than tiny.
She’s never tried to smash a city
or make a hostage of the Queen.
She spreads no death or havoc.
Her claws are dull and clean.
Her only deadly tool perhaps
is a tongue that drips and licks and laps
up all the frightened dinner scraps.
My dog just wasn’t built for killin’.
I’ve got to find a better villain.
Three.
Even you aren’t having a lazy Wednesday, this song will make you feel like you are.
Grow slowly
Jeff