with a sesame seed stuck in your teeth.

  

 You will gain sophistication, become accepted by Reader’s 

Digest, and retire in Puyallup.

  

 In your next life you will be a teacher

 and no one will ever call you by your first name.

  

 After your next vacation you will come home

 and discover that your neighbors have redecorated

 in the style of Iowa trailer court.

  

 If you feel like you’re getting old,

 secretly plant zucchini in your neighbor’s flowerbeds.

  

 Avoid people who iron their sheets

 or roll their socks & underwear.

  

 Painting and poetry and music will show us where we should

 be going, not the senate or tv news.

  

 The next thermos bottle you see will actually

 be a listening device made in Korea.

  

 All the people in this restaurant

 are glad that they are not you.