I find that it’s always best
to ask at least 4 *unreasonable questions
before **breakfast
(at least)
the first two, well
those are just warm ups, really
but by the third, things should be getting so toasty hot,
so brain-bendingly unreasonable,
that the idea of nodding off after ***lunch sounds
like a distinct impossibility.
and what of the fourth question?
well, that’s just there to make sure q no. 3 wasn’t a fluke
—a convenient coincidence or something akin to beginner’s luck
see,
the 4th makes it real
—makes you a serial success
so now, nearly nothing else matters
now you can let the mid-afternoon mishaps fly
and watch as the deadlines elegantly loom
great tapestries of nervousless beauty
(or perhaps the better word is weave?)
because here, in this unreasonable state of profound absurdity
—here, in the somewhere between twilight
and just after dawn,
why, you can walk right through it all, perfectly unharmed
riding on the wings of…
well, of whatever strange, magnificent beast
that first comes to your verdant mind
and to think:
if you can accomplish all this before breakfast,
what other treasure does the day hold?
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* for those who do not intuitively understand what an unreasonable question is, fear not; provided, here, is a level 1 example: why do mid-sized luxury sedans only drive upside down in underground tunnels? (disclaimer: please do not, in any way, let this rudimentary example limit your imagination’s own questions.)
** assuming, of course, that you eat breakfast. if you don’t, even better. then you can improvise.
*** surely, you at least eat lunch.