Learning To Fast

Measure the length of a long day

by fasting to feel the worth of it.

Measure that day without wishing it gone.

Endure and think on its beauty,

stomach growling, vexation mounting,

pickled, your attitude.

Clearly you need something else to do

than thinking of what you're not doing.

Surely a man shouldn't live for tomorrow

when the meaning of tomorrow is a snack.

Would you be better off dead than alive

today, at least? No. Learn.