Lizzy Burnam 🐞

Look, aren’t we all just tossing dimes 
in the same fountain, not believing 
and sorta secretly believing at the same time? 

Once I watched a homeless man wade 
through the water, sweeping loose change 
at the bottom til security took him away. 

Still, you don’t have to carry yourself 
like an amoeba in a petri dish. 
Try thinking with your teeth instead of your shoulders, 

or at the very least dive in, for Christ’s sake! 
Are you listening? Put your book down. 
I’m trying to teach you how to fish 

with dynamite. Here’s how to light the wick. 
Here’s where to aim. Here’s what to say 
when they find the others drowned.