I Have No Advice For You

No tricks, no hacks, no 12 steps

Carlo Zeno
Catharsis Chronicles

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Graffiti on a white wall: a smiley face that is not smiling and the words “What Now” in capital letters
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

I have no advice
for you —

no tricks, no hacks
to pure unadulterated
happiness

no path to
heal, no 12
step program
to rediscover
your naked
inner- child

no guide to
success, no hack
to helium-filled
glee, no escape
route from the
catastrophe of
nine to five to
nine to five
stuck
on repeat like a
bad song you
can’t get out
of your head,
like a sitcom
that should have
been cancelled
last decade

what have I achieved?
you ask

I’ve achieved pain.
I’ve achieved betrayal,
disloyalty, disillusionment,
disenchantment —
every writer’s true
bread and butter

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Carlo Zeno
Catharsis Chronicles

Top writer in poetry and satire. Migrant. Expat. INFP. Poet. Satirist. Tragedian. Tutor. Public Servant.