How to Be Happy

1) Wake up to the sound of the ocean
on your white noise machine. It is too expensive

2) To do the real thing, you must swing your legs
out of bed and shout “Ah! I am alive!” with just enough

3) Jubilation at the small things: coffee, cream, banana,
the way your son pronounces cauliflower like

4) Calla flower by what it is: a little rage. Remember
her bloom is not performing. Remember before you

5) Begin your big, important life