how to have a life of beauty

go to a house party where you don't know anybody
be overdressed or

underdressed
there will be a guy there who smells

bad
and the music

will be absolute garbage

Dance anyway
hug that guy
look at yourself

in the mirror
and laugh at the sky

love thrives in

comfort
in the warm

caverns of the heart
but

it is born out in the cold
in-between places and back alleys

take it in

like a scared kitten

torn and scared and bleating for hope

and teach it to sleep again