I enjoy chewing on diamonds while paddling

In flour and basking in egg whites.

In between bites of shiny rock, my mind

Wanders to fantastical places and everlasting lists.

Lists. Of course!

There are always lists.

Lists on how to change the time,

Lists on how to mime.

Lists on how to play,

Lists on where to stay.

When thinking of magical listings, I like to imagine

Reading the list my mother left my future offspring.

 1. Liquorice spoils your appetite.

    I know the candy man can, but don’t steal

   Your mother’s quarters for tasty black rope.

    It will make you grow five feet taller and six feet wider.

2. Hold onto a concept and visualize an image

    When you feel yourself start to drip from the measuring spoon,

     Imagine big tear drops on a birthday girl’s face

     And shiny pimples on a boy’s blue moon.   

3. Sucking leeches dry is similar to being seen below the waistline.

    If you ever swim in a creek with a freak make sure the leeches

    Don’t suck you dry, otherwise you will be forced to hang yourself

    Naked from a clothesline, while the freak pokes at your pruned edges.

4. Don’t silly yourself with the punctualities of suicide.

     I’m only here to keep you from falling off the cliff,

     Don’t cloud my responsibilities with the deliberate

     Act of jumping.

  5. Never get married. It’s a life sentence.

      Find someone in your life who won’t tell

      The police man about the dirty pots

      Kept under the kitchen sink.

When done recalling the 5 nodes of wisdom,

I swim ashore and waid my feet at the edge of the bowl.