what i've learned in the last 20 minutes

1) take time to take care of your feelings
2) take time to take care of your feelings
3) take even more time
4) and then the world will be a happier place for all, including you, but everyone else too
5) write them down
6) scream them out loud
7) paint a picture for them
8) write a play about them
9) go ride a bike through them
10) go kick a soccer ball over them
11) go burn some rubber all under them
12) go kiss a cat until they're softened
13) go get dirty in the mud with them
14) go bake a cake and mix them into the batter
15) go listen to a neighbor ramble on while you ignore them and later come back to them
16) go take a nap until they pop out in your dreams and speak to you through them
17) but eventually somehow somewhere listen and feel and express and squeeze and drip drop them until they are gone gone gone into the earth until the next wave of them comes to wash your shore