Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The Fucking Happy Poem
This is the happy poem
I wrote it to make you happy
Happy
Happy
Happy
I'm smiling as I write it
You should smile as you read it
There's a happy face in every line
Guaranteed!

Smile
Smile
Smile
Read it in the morning
Read it in the night
Read it in between
Read it whenever you feel yourself getting sad
Read it with a smile
Happy Happy Happy
Don't stop smiling
Not even for a goddamned second
Happy Happy Happy
Smile Smile Smile
Remember: a frown is just a smile
gravity took over
So lift the corners of that mouth
to the ceiling…
Heart attack can't get us down, nor broken bones,
emphysema, a cornucopia of cancers,
hemorrhoids, shingles, eczema, 
the heartbreak of psoriasis, 
stubbed toes, Alzheimers,
 that disease Lou Gehrig got that I can never spell,
all mere technicalities,
strokes, car crash, train wreck, suicide, slips in bathtubs,
natural disasters, war war war,
why be so negative?
fatal tumbles down the cellar stairs, three-alarm fires, car bombs, smoke inhalation,
Smile Smile Smile
dog bites, domestic abuse, avalanche, spontaneous combustion,
choking to death on a donut hole,
pit bull attack, diabetes, nephritis, 
accidental electrocution, drowning,
There's a tombstone out there with your name on it
Oh so what?
Cheer up
Don't be a gloomy Gus
murder, yes even murder!, asthma, homicidal exes,
terrorist attack, dying forgotten in a nursing home,
raped and stabbed and left to bleed out in a ditch,
Have I left out anything?
Sure, but there's no reason to let it get you down
Come on let me see those pearly whites
even if you haven't a tooth left in your head
Smile Smile Smile
Happy Happy Happy
So happy
So happy
so 
so 
so 
Happy!




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