How to Care for a Happy Person


buy a burrito,
put it in the mail.?

take them to the mall
on a Tuesday noon and show 
them what real sadness looks like.

blankets, lots of blankets?

I've eaten enough sunrises
to know the moon.
And that is when you make
happiness a mission of night
with knives. 

pillows, lots of pointless throw pillows?

it's a losing battle
if you really float on it,
and I have been drowning
for a while. 

drugs?

but if you look at the upside trees
in the lake,
you will catch a glimpse
of the other side
of the curtain rod. 

buy a chocolate chip cookie.
and mail it to a celebrity?

I don’t know how to deal with happy people,
only sad bastards like myself;
happy people make me nervous.