Angular Living

Try angular living —
approach from the side.
Taking things head on
results in television and
a corporate existence.

Do not imagine yourself
a lion or other predator —
orchids make fine familiars
as do hermit crabs and 
the common rat.

The hairstyle matters.
Doctor it up with fronds
and stick a Christmas string
in there — no matter that you have
no plug to illuminate them.

When asked for a biography, dissemble.
Demonstrate charity by offering
a lollipop to the questioner
but demand the stick back
after it’s been sucked clean —

recycling, y’know.  Watch 
responses to the most common
questions — place of birth, siblings.
Choose, perhaps, the life of a saint
or a local practitioner of chiropractic

as a source for details.  Whatever you do,
don’t mention motorcycles, or umbrellas —
routine items lead to routine assumptions.
Again: routine items lead to routine

assumptions.  Nothing you say
should establish a routine.  If you are 
an artist, for God’s sake deny it.
If you are an embalmer, stiffen up
and lie right.

The angular life is worth living skewed.
Long term pollution of the mainstream
with your existence pays off.  When the rest
die off, you’ll be sitting pretty.
It’ll be a world made for your type.