Happiness in One Hell of a Semi-Qualitative Enumeration*
Forward progress
Always walking backwards
Hide your selfless
Like kale chips from party guests
See your tight-wound dream self?
It's hanging from your dream shelf
Think less, be more
Be your own vacation
Glance left, peer right,
Outsource your frustration
Ventilate your pain
In a beneficial way
Like regulations published for your health
Don't pollute
What you can not have your self
Unwind, rewind
Counting your mornings with chalk
Yoga, Spinning
Wade ten years of TED Talks
The vending machine found
In your destination town
Accepts you only in a certain range
Accepts acceptance in
Only exact change
*Inspired by this and this. It reads well in the rhythm of the verse and bridge of "The Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera**. You can read it with or without the absurdly melodramatic growl-whisper used in this production, which was far more effectively employed by Jack Skellington in "Nightmare Before Xmas" and Your Uncle in "That Time You Were Groped Behind the Shed on Memorial Day".
**I'll probably never get to kick Andrew Lloyd Weber in the nuts, but I think this is a small step in the right direction.
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