Sometimes the show
has to go on because
you’re the only one
who can do it

Even if you
don’t think you can,
you do.

Even if they
think they
can do it
better than you,

or have
more friends
to help them,

or supporters
who see
them through.
Sometimes it’s only you.

And you have
to be
that dude.

Even though
they wrote
a sign
or two,

made a
couple million
faster than you,

drive faster cars
than your Subaru.
Dude, do you.
Be you.

Even if your
gas lights an
engine or two,

Stirs a few
pots or two,
gets some fuming too,
dude be you.

It’s better
to like you
than for them to.

Rhyme and reason?
Here it is. Life
if a business.
Growing up’s the trick.

If you feel this,
then don’t care what
they say or do.

Let them hate.
It feels good
to know someone’s
thinking of you.

 

Jason Wright is the editor and founder of Oddball Magazine. His column appears weekly. His third book, Train of Thought 2: Almost Home is available now at the Oddball Book Store.