A short direction
To avoid dejection,
By variations
In occupations,
And prolongation
Of relaxation,
And combinations
Of recreations,
And disputation
On the state of the nation
In adaptation
To your station,
By invitations
To friends and relations,
By evitation
Of amputation,
By permutation
In conversation,
And deep reflection
You'll avoid dejection.
Learn well your grammar,
And never stammer,
Write well and neatly,
And sing most sweetly,
Be enterprising,
Love early rising,
Go walk of six miles,
Have ready quick smiles,
With lightsome laughter,
Soft flowing after.
Drink tea, not coffee;
Never eat toffy.
Eat bread with butter.
Once more, don't stutter.
Don't waste your money,
Abstain from honey.
Shut doors behind you,
(Don't slam them, mind you.)
Drink beer, not porter.
Don't enter the water
Till to swim you are able.
Sit close to the table.
Take care of a candle.
Shut a door by the handle,
Don't push with your shoulder
Until you are older.
Lose not a button.
Refuse cold mutton.
Starve your canaries.
Believe in fairies.
If you are able,
Don't have a stable
With any mangers.
Be rude to strangers.
Moral: Behave.
Mar 29
Mar 29, 2026 at 11:06 PM UTC
You are the enchantment wrapped in my bones,
consuming my veins, my soul—
a curse that lies within the bottom of me,
for as long as time breathes.
It is madness,
like a disease rising in my flame,
like a soul that aches,
yet refuses to surrender itself.
For as long as I remember,
my love for you remains untouched,
trapped where time cannot reach—
It is almost an obsession,
an obsession I was never meant to escape.
I drown in it,
I rot in it,
only to be forever etched into me.
I cannot tell if I love it, or if it consumes me,
but I choose to let it devour me entirely.
You asked me, “Why me?”
Your tempestuous, shattering voice calls me, unrelenting.
The question burns within me—
Why I am so bound to you,
Why your shadow lives within me,
Why I am so selfish for you.
All of those things within you,
and yet I ache to carve your initials into my flesh.
Mar 29
Mar 29, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC