everybody recommends

when you’re down

when you’re blue

even petula clark is out to try & get you

to do what she wants---

people that you know &

people for whom you could hardly give a fleeting f**k

are all out to cure your troubles

by suggesting things that might lift you up

suggesting things that they have done which

“could possibly do the same for you, if ya just try”---

and then there is the guilt imposed upon

when any answer besides a positive agreement

(which instills inside the recommender the feeling that they

themselves have “done good,” where they walk with their heads

a little higher, etc.)

is one which is seen as a blatant disregard for their feelings &

rather than accept you for your own person

you are often cast out as

a misanthrope

who is “getting what they deserve”

for not going with the flow &

accepting the tunes that have wooed folks for a thousand ages---

in fact,

everyone’s got an answer, a room full of em,’

for questions that you might not have even asked yet

but from whose “logical inference” & path already traveled

is “supposed to lead” to the same generic conclusions

which have already been documented

so that more people have to

think less---

how wonderful it is to live in a world

where everyone recommends to stop

living, no?