poetry by Tao Lin

Inangahua Junction bridge after the 1968 earthquake, photo by Phillip Capper, Flickr creative commons

are you okay?

i don't think telling someone 'don't feel sad' will console them

you need to do whatever you can to make them feel better

whenever your actions make them feel sad

and not stop until they feel better

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poetry by Tao Lin, 2008
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy 
Melville House Publishing, New York