How to Do Absolutely Nothing
Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin but:
Do not take your walking shoes,
Don’t take any clothes you’d wear
anyplace anyone would see you.
Don’t take your rechargeables.
Take Scrabble if you have to,
but not a dictionary and no
pencils for keeping score.
Don’t Take a cookbook
or anything to cook.
A fishing pole, ok
but not the line,
hook, sinker,
leave it all.
Find out
what’s left.
-Barbara Kingsolver
