1.
Make a daily memo of your eggs.
Give up something you love to get something better to love.
Throw away your last hope rather than undersell.
2.
Loosen a sprig of cherry blossom and see how it smells.
Break off a line of lilacs long as your arm.
3.
Stage your fat steers for the butcher’s eye
Stand at a hog-tight fence and count your hams,
Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks.