you’ll want to eat your feelings
with chocolate chips
and mini marshmallows
and a chaser of crunchy
peanut butter
that’s okay but don’t
forget to treat yourself
to oreos or fudge
stripes too
commit small acts of
defiance like
pressing all the try
me buttons on toys in Walmart
or refuse to concede
to society’s demands for
capital letters or
punctuation
you’re burned out not
grammar’s bitch
it’s okay to feel old,
like really old
like thirty or forty
or maybe seventy
years older than you
actually are
burn out does not respect
age but it does age you
comfort tv helps
so do naps
your mind can be turned off
when the partridge
family is turned on
just remember you are
burned out
because life is hard
and sometimes feels like a slog
through deep sucking
mud
yet maybe there’s dry
land ahead
maybe the color green
blooms just beyond
your line of vision
and lavender and roses
grow abundantly
thickening the air with
their perfume
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