How to Be

1. Dispertion of self.
2. Chew thoughts thoroughly.
3. Keep it clean, except when it’s dirty.
4. No need to be fucked up to open up.
5. When it feels right a day later, you know it’s true.
6. When it feels right 5 months later, you know it’s real.
7. Doused in words.
8. Open honesty, compassionate generosity.
9. Remember first you were an athlete,
10. And always you are a poet.