Don’t Be Malvolio

Don’t be Malvolio.
Avoid yellow socks.
Learn how to laugh at a mirror.
Don’t be a Belch,
a dissipate trickster,
squandering trust for a joke.
Don’t be Maria
writing false letters
for the mere sake of fooling a fool.
Be a Viola.
Go to Illyria,
but don’t wear the lie of another.

Be true and be open,
though you go awry.
Mix freely with workers in words
in trusty Illyria,
where literature winks
and belly laughs holding a mirror,
an image of us just as we are,
trying so hard to be loved.

wlw - William L Wren, otherwise known as Bill

 

May 2016

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Back to Top