HAPPY
DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY
I sat with a man yesterday who knows the difference between
the sound of wind in Aspens +wind in Pines Spent his youth at
Lakehead U Forestry Then a beeline for Jung via Zarathustra
(I married him after his Gregory Bateson period when he was want
to make circles with his hands Not unlike Rainman)
Our dear friend from back then now a Cantor said 2 words: transitional
relationship that was in 1988 I ask you: what is not transitory? We 3
more recently saw her husband buried on a sunny hillside Now we want
for her a lush baker or opera singer #voluptuouscantorbride This life is
beautiful +cruel
But back to yesterday: edge of Lake Ontario giant rocks jut out I sit with said
husband Numero 3 Started marrying early at a ripe 19 Through the sun-dapple
+duck-squawk legs splayed red frizz flung far+wide spray of waves tickling hammer
toes I thought I heard husband say in low anthem baritone: If you keep throwing
rocks you’ll hurt the ducks Do you really want that?
Always Socrates drives one to distraction My methodology: direct+Sartre Hell is
other people Touch the ducks + I kick your sadistic butts to Rochester Kids were
6+10 They scuttered away like young vermin Snapshot of a new generation?
Raised in the wake of Littleton’s + Las Vegas +that Batman movie turned terrorist
in Colorado They snarled at us pointy teeth glinting in October sun
We had transitioned from fall romp at lakeside to: Why have we wasted our lives
saving the depraved conscious apes from themselves? Who by these early years of
the 21st century have made it their life’s work to be happy! *(the happiest people
in the world spend 5 to 6 hrs. a day socializing.. Globe+Mail pg. L7 today) Perhaps
this is why their kids are running wild trying to kill mallards at Ontario Place
For Chrissakes if the goal is to be happy how will they know withering from
blossoming? Fuckery from meaning? Zimmerman sang of the idiot wind + it’s
blowing through our modern era making thugs into Presidents So rise up happy
sheep Smell the smell of reality of the vicissitudes preparing you to confront what
it means to live until 102 Because those of you who are happiest get 8 more years to
contemplate death! *(Globe+Mail: the happiest people add 8 yrs to life expectancy)
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Fall 2017 for Rachel Tyler Atkins
songanddancegirl 