Written after three days in the hospital without any sign of a bowel movement and learning that the doctor wouldn’t release patients until they had one.
Sometimes
when you’re stuck
in the tideflats
of despair
and nothing,
but nothing,
seems to float
your boat,
you just’ve
got to
give a shit.
Nothing else
will work.
No amount
of whining
will budge
that heavy barge
of sorrow.
The only thing
that’ll work is
to just plain
give a shit.
Of course,
sometimes
if you’re
an old fart
or just
a real
pain in the ass,
you can
get by
by mustering
a real stink.
But in the end,
you know
if you’re going
to right
your ship,
no amount of
hot air
will really
get you going.
You just
plain have to
give a shit
to get on
with your life.