Flash: New Marketing Business Venture: Start behavior-
modification-type religion
where people can go to learn to stop caring.
(That's the music cue, you techno-nerd!)
[Debbie Boone, You Light Up My Life]
I want to share something vital
I just read in this self-help book
I took from the trash can
in the ladies' room at the
House of Pancakes.
Will, by G. Gordon Liddy,
Master of the Watergate caper.
My new guru.
Who, when holding his hand
over a lit candle, said,
"The trick is not to mind it."
I have set as my goal
to get so strong
I could peel onions
all day long
and never shed one tear--
I want my skin to thicken
so if I'm panic-stricken
when post-nuke day gets here
I won't even feel the fear
as I watch me and the world disappear.
The trick is not to mind it--
if you're looking for peace
this is where you'll find it.
For life
is like that candle flame
and we
are like Gordon Liddy's hand
hovering
over it.
And it hurts
like hell,
but the trick
is not
to mind it.