Instructions
Wrap me in your personality
and roll me off your tongue
Open your mouth and let the river run through
while I fish into your taste buds
Paint by the alphabet
Clean your teeth with the bristles
Wrap my body in sourdough
Store me in your lunchbox
Take my hand and blend it
with your gin rummy
Tomorrow when you wake up
you'll shit your pants
Don’t put all your pearls in the same basket
The tears you save may be your own
Don’t let the cat’s meow out of the bag
You’ll get caught with your pants down
Roll yourself up in a fur ball
and burst
Instructions by Ethel Meilleur is a Blasted Tree original poem