(Submitted by the author)
(So you might as well start trying. – Regina Spektor)
You can choose your own adventure.
Life is difficult.
Happy families are all alike, Ishmael.
I sing the song of myself - why
Is the measure of love, loss?
Flip it. There are a thousand turns.
More. Take a self-help book off
The shelf. Or read the one by
Lorrie Moore. Moore’s is better
Than all of them.
Don’t be a writer, she says. If you can
Be anything else, anything else at all,
Just do it. You won’t regret it.
Some of us are not so lucky. That’s