Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There

Stare at the ants like a slug.

Stop matching socks.

Don’t even intend to floss, eventually.

 

Don’t move.

Stand perfectly still

like a pillar of salt.

 

Mark all e-mails as read

and stand.

Set both feet

over the X marked spot.

 

Leave the shoe untied.

Allow your ego to try

to add height to your stature.

Think tall, stand tall,

don’t move at all.

 

The moss will grow on one side.

Your shadow will do the walking

under the sun,

under the sun.

It will be the long

and the short of it

under the sun.

Psalm 42

Isaiah 41:10

Jeremiah 29:11-13

Psalm 139

Psalm 46

Psalm 46:10