A Little Advice from the Matriarch
A poem
1
If you want to see far,
turn your back on the sun.
Don’t look for the road you are walking on.
2
Knock at your door.
That was your self you were talking to.
Politeness can’t hurt.
3
Don’t shout at the ox!
You must care for it.
4
I had no name when I came in.
Today I can’t remember it.
5
Jonah had no line, no hook.
Imagination coughed him up.
He didn’t want to tell anyone.
6
Don’t hold your nose while passing God.
A letter has been sent to you.
7
Valley or peak?
Same sky!
8
Stop sitting around!
Have you nothing to do?