Procrastination

Death with Headphones

“No time like the present,”

my stepfather used to say,

as if

there actually were

an alternative,

.

as if

mortality were a compromise

with inconvenience,

instead of

the ultimatum

we know it is.

.

Wake up and smell the roses.

Wake up and smell the ocean.

Wake up and smell the bacon.

Wake up.

Wake up.

Wake up.