Eat your heart out.

Listen to Her fruits:

so delicious
holistically nutritious
deliver me from evil
boxed cancer waves
icicles vicious

read the colors
flexible dexterous
lie if you want to hide
spicy if the work is hard
sweet if for breakfast

ripped from the ground
protective sheeting
under cover only fleeting
soft womb for your mouth

Red cautious reaction
poison weaving vine
worship the winding
devour inside out

Orange sweet preparation
ooey gooey decadent
keys open transcendent
unlock Pandora's Box

Yellow open pollination
sunshine reflex radiant
blinding pastel gradient
petals stiffly soft

Green fearless syndication
narrow sneaks shifty snakes
riding straight and strait
sliding steady - snap!

Blue mystery vacation
slippery chilled cottage stone
home away from home
drive on down the road

Purple temporal divination
bejeweled unspoken volume
other fruits noms de plume
devices unexplained


Be blessed burning
tongue, lips, nerves alight
revealing secrets
life's love garden
receive gift of second sight

Open up...

An Open Letter.

Dear Selfless Masses,

You are growing in number,

suffering
from a cataract
of good intent,

an addiction

to Veiled Schadenfreude,

an affliction

called Indiscrimination.

Symptoms include

becoming "Yes-men"

with a constant need

to help Others.

Withdrawal includes

recognition of

the screaming need

to focus on yourself.

Selfishness:

a harrowing surreality,

we know.

Don't fear.

We're here.

After assessing,

discriminating,

detecting your worth,

we may choose

to assist you.

Should you come up short,

sorry,

there's nothing we can do

for you.

If you've learned a thing

from this note,

you should not take offense

to such addressed honesty.

Instead, 

 1. know you don't need us,

 2. address what's at stake,

 3. put the TV on the sidewalk,

 4. with the news, build a hat,

 5. bar the door;

 6. unplug,

 7. turn off,

 8. take time,
 9. read this,

10. and don't-forget-to-breathe.

Thoughts will come

if you let them.

If thinking for Self

is too much

coming from us,

remember the words

of your foremartyr:

nothing will change in this world

if you can't first change it

in you.

Hope we see you

on the other side.

With Love,

The Recovery Team