QUOTE : WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR PAST<br />Serve it with lemons and curdled milk<br />with shortbread biscuits<br />make the day gray<br />spots of rain.<br />Make a quilt out of the villains<br />crochet the heroes together in a hat<br />Wear the hat. Use the quilt<br />as a picnic blanket.<br />Bring your friends.<br />Watch the squirrels be tiny monkeys<br />dare-deviling the trees.<br />Exclaim things!<br />Each lemon, sup of tea, cookie<br />is a bite into the future /<br />will digest, exit, and swim.<br />Digest. Exit. Swim.<br />Drink the curdled milk and get sick<br />watch your friends clean up<br />hold your hair back / hat on<br />hand you a tissue.<br />When you wash the vomit<br />out of the villainous quilt<br />each time it gets weaker<br />Picnic often.