Every once in a while,
imagine life as a hard, rigid,
inflexible caramel center.
If you can help it,
make your way through
a swirling maelstrom
of volatile surprises.
And by all that is holy,
practice a death-defying leap
through a flaming hoop
while reciting Hamlet
in under 15 seconds
when nobody’s around.
People always clap
for the wrong reasons.
Shloka Shankar, 2017
Remixed works:
Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types, by Dahlia Lithwick
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.