In case of stagnation

We need to play
we need to laugh
we need to run
get off our ass,
we need to skip
we need to shout
to shimmy tooshies
all about.

The birds they fly
the gators swim
frogs can croak
and make a din
jaguars leap
and mousies shuffle
hefalumps
they like to snuffle,
but we
we sit
we think
we plod
we act as if
we're stuck in sod.
We want to crow
or belly laugh
instead we stay
on inbred paths.

Today perhaps
tomorrow, too?
let's try to do
just one thing new!

Say take some paints
or whiz of cheese
and smear them
on
canvi*
with ease,
or find a friend
who's out of sorts
draw with chalk
and laugh, with snorts!

We could cook
without a plan
let recipes
ignore our flans.
Or scatter rosebuds
in lagoons
or shoot at corncobs
with harpoons...

All this to say
when we are blue,
there is so much
that we can do,
if we don't stay
in just one place,
but let our body's
movements grace
the moments that
lay out before
those minutes when
we're tired or bored,

Let's jump
or swim
or snort
or croak
create a mess
or tell a joke
it's up to us
it really is
C'mon
let's fill
our lives with fizz!!!!


* editor's note: canvi = plural of canvas :)