making lemonade

whenever anything went
wrong my father
would say,

"when life hands you
a lemon, son, make
lemonade."

it is probably something
he read on a stupid
poster in one of those
inspirational stores every
mall in america has.

but, sitting alone in this
hellhole of an
apartment, i need to know
what i do when life
hands me a steaming
pile of shit.

-published in Nerve Cowboy