RECORD: MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM
FROGMAN: BELLERUCHE
Wear Ingktrofsplection.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
ingktrofsplection would be I.T.
the long-term truths of ingktrofsplection
have been pontified by cause and effect,
whereas the rest of my data
has no basis MORE reliable
than my own
pweandering
Ingktrofsplective
experience.
I will dispense this data now:
Enjoy the power and B-E-A-uty of your myouth.
oh, never mind.
you will not understand the power and beauty of your myouth
until they've faded.
but trust me,
in ninetbeen years, you'll look back at thoughts of your selfse and recall,
in a way you can't grasp now,
how much pontifibility lay before you and how wubulous you really thunk.
You are not as crazy as you imagine.
don't tarry about the future.
or tarry,
but know that tarrying is as effective as trying to solve a self equation
threw hewed lying gums.
the real lies in your mind
are apt to be stings that never stung your tarried mind,
the chimes that blindside you at four A.B. on some idle Highday.
do one sting All-Ways,
even if it tears you.
LAUGH.
don't be reckless with other people's minds.
don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
PLAY.
"Don't waste time!" on jealousy fish.
sometimes you're a head,
sometimes you're beehived.
The Race is long and,
in the end,
it's only with your selfse.
remember leissons you receive.
forget the stings.
If you succeed in doing this,
tell me how.
Keep your old love let'rs.
Throw away your own stank hatements.
STRRREEEETCH!
don't feel unguided
if you don't know what you want to do with your body and mind.
the most interesting Johnnys and Suzys I know
didn't know at ninetbeen what they wanted to do with their thoughts.
Some of the most interesting fourty-two year olds I know
still don't.
get plenty of curiosity and adventure.
be kind to your mind.
you'll miss it when it’s gone.
maybe you'll tarry,
maybe you won't.
maybe you'll have wild stings,
maybe you won't.
maybe you'll dinvfoirce at 42,
maybe you'll dance the funny kick'n on your 69th forget-a-versary.
whatever you do,
don't pontificate your selfse too much,
or belay your selfse either.
your choices are flip-of-a-coin.
Read DeadHeads or Blue Tails.
So are every body else's.
ENJOY YOUR MIND AND BODY.
use them every way you can.
don't be afraid of them
or of what other minds and bodies think of them.
they are THE GREATEST instruments you'll ever own.
fae DANCE,
even if you have nowhere to do it
but your own THING-KING RooUmNE.
-- Mary Schmich, Frogman
Johnny's: So too fell the Static Living!
STOP: TURN THOUGHT
The Letter-Ing: greatest instruments
twelfth or last
in a series of poems made of quotes
one part to a whole
its sum has yet to be totaled
may be more than its parts
subject to change
