Foolishness

Why do we submit
to the tyranny
of Doing Something?

“It’s such a
luscious day,
I should be:
__________________”

You know how you
SHOULD
fill in that
empty space.

What if,
instead,
you challenge that
SHOULD
to a duel at twenty paces.

Then you turn,
stride off,
count to twenty
and . . .
just keep going.