Please don’t let the sleet street dislodge your feet
or mar your car by sliding it too far.
Keep gray skies from your eyes with sunny smiles.
Make rain yield to your windshield with wipers
made of diapers. A slick coat (not of paint)
helps you cope when you feel you cain’t. Sidewalks
turn to moats? Take a boat and float for miles!
If a huge deluge should smear your rouge, tell
jerks you’re a work of modern art! Take heart!
Reach a stream? Don’t scream. Like following dreams,
just follow it. (Maybe you’ll catch a bream!)
Note well: If ya huddle in a puddle,
the mud’ll befuddle ya. And most of all:
Should a waterfall fall on y’all…don’t call.
Roger Armbrust
February 21,
2013
