by Linda Meg Frith

Hang out in the grocery frozen section
between Haagen-Dazs and the store brand.
Buy 6 pints of Dulce de leche.

Visit the animal shelter just to look.
Adopt a Great Dane.
Name him Percival von Apfeldoom.

Drive to a nearby bodega and buy a burner phone.
Make a prank call to the local pub.
Drive by said pub. Don’t go in.

Donate your pajamas and handbags
to a battered women’s shelter.
Sleep in the guest room with Percy.

Venture to the kitchen for a cup of water.
Pour a shot of tequila instead.
Make a batch of blondies to eat with ice cream.

Organize your silverware drawer and
throw away the plastic cutlery.
Take out the trash.

Linda Meg Frith is a retired therapist and longtime member of Green River Writers. She credits them with most of her growth and development as a poet. She has published poetry in Calliope, Women Who Write, and the Dallas Rainbow NOW newsletter. Linda Meg lives with her chihuahua, Jasmine, in Louisville, KY. She is currently working on a collection of poems about mindfulness.