Michael Estabrook writes

Against the Grain

When you feel you need to make a change

a big change in your life

when you want to make a change

but you don’t know what or how

what do you do?

Just pick something and do it, the Devil laughs.

Doesn’t matter what?

Change is change. He stops pacing.

Let me help you out.

Do something big! For example,

become celibate or gay or a political activist

or a dog breeder or a gun lover or –

and this is an interesting idea –

stop writing poetry it sucks anyway,

take up another hobby instead:

golf, gardening, stamp collecting,

raise ferrets, play the tuba, anything

just do something please!

For the love God (and the Devil)

and he stomps out of the room

shaking his head just like always.

Him and his dramatic exits, so predictable.

Against the Grain --  Craig Alan