Advice from the Lights

If you don't get too close to people you can't disappoint them,

which would be so much worse

than letting them disappoint you.

To the extent that you gain

a perch that means other people look up to you,

to just that extent you can never

tell them how you feel.

You can warble, or

follow a siren, or a Shenandoah

vireo, into the shade, or take

advice from the lights: be

a child, or be like a child.

You will want for nothing, and you will never be heard.