cancer szn ‘25

“Here comes the sun and I said…it’s alright.”

-The Beatles, 1969

after a certain amount of time

you are simply going to have to

wake up one morning

and decide—

today I am choosing to be happy

no matter what

and that’s really all there is to say about that

a period at the end of a sentence.

I’m 39.5 years old today

and I’ve just decided that—

that’s the only way

I am willing to do this

happy

my one wild and precious life

happy

PS Drawing obvious inspiration from The Beatles, Abraham-Hicks, Forrest Gump, Mary Oliver, and believe it or not, I woke up this morning thinking of George Costanza, too. 2025 is the summer of Marisa.