You Know

You Know

You know how to get through a cold really fast?

You know what you do to get better?

Drink fruit juice with vinegar, that will clean you right out,

Flush the toxins you've stored up away.

Vitamin pills in a massive dose

Put you back on your feet in a beat.

Your head will be clear as a bell on the wind.

That's what to do if you want to get well.

Rest up and fluids and hot chicken soup.

If you want to get better, you're needing that broth.

Well maybe, I think, I'm impatient as any

to get well and keep running my marathon pace.

But maybe, oh gosh, I don't mind feeling ill.

And maybe I'll stop for a change and consider,

This wake-up call to slow things and just be,

A patience pill may be all that is what I now need.

(7/5/09)