try hate later on
after the kids are out of the house
or have moved back home
from wasted money at state college.
go to a wedding once a year
to remember love costs more
than a cake and a cross eyed
flower girl.
watch baseball but go for the National League
when in doubt.
adpot a cat that hates you
this will be easy.
read and write poetry
and the worse the better,
it might make you famous
so you can keep a mynah bird
in a cage
to cook you scrambled eggs
and laugh at your bad jokes.
Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in PBS Newshour, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford Review, and over a hundred literary journals. A 2008 Million Writers Award and 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee.
