New Year of the Mind

Jonathan Dubow

Let’s eat tongue and ginger
and as much cinnamon as we can pick up with a fork.
Let’s have good relationships next year too.
Let’s get our teeth and vehicles cleaned.
Let’s rethink this.
Let’s do something to influence the past.
Let’s ascend to Berlin (or wherever).
Let’s live a long time.
Let’s engage with the interminable contrary.
Everybody read a bit of Kafka.
Everybody carry an olive.
Let everybody make a fuss.
Open the tongue-arteries and chest-arteries.
Open the lungs!
Let’s know when to stop.
Let’s continue with our heads.