When You Wake Up

When you wake up into the panic

and the tulips from Ralph's

have almost had it,

why don't you change the water

and cut the stems,

maybe find a vase a little taller

to help them stand up straight?

When you wake up into the panic

and the Devil's almost got you

to throw yourself off the cliffs of religion,

why don't you lie down

in front of the ferocious traffic

of your daily life

and get creamed by some of the details?

December 13, 1993