how to get out of a funk

lament.

find a firebrand and follow,

maybe fondle them. steep

a cup of tea and blow on it

’til your jowls turn sour

inside. cut your hair

with a lighter. remember

your childhood goldfish

and the Alamo. eat marmalade

on caraway rye under

the waning moon. experiment

with form, with men, with

enjambment. get a jar funnel;

make jam from bilberries

or goji or the insides

of bulrushes. write a sonata

then sing it. read an epic

then fling it

over the neighbor’s fence

into the bird bath. plant a seed

in a taco shell. drive a golf cart

in a snowstorm. buy yourself

a new carpet.

if you’re still in a funk,

lament again.