How To Find Your Song and Sing It
(for Steve Zeitlin)
You must You really want to You’ve imagined Fantasized even started once or twice or twenty eight times bought the right size notebook harmonica canvas dancing shoes camera, guitar, paint brush perfect uniball pen perfect large yellow umbrella perfect color deep deep green you dreamt your song and woke up singing drew your lover on an envelope started a novel twelve years ago two yellow pads full of characters names beginning with Arlette you know the best possible opening line for your poem background color for your enormous painting plot for your children’s book starring Billy a transgender pig you know the story you’ve wanted to tell for 42 years now you know too you truly know big secret guaranteed actual path way you can really truly Do This large or small surprising red miracle starting right now with this poem, this very poem, which ends and begins with you