Salvatore Difalco

Self-Improvement Sonnet 

Tell me how to be somebody better.
Can’t put one foot in front of the other
without tripping or kicking someone by
accident. Can’t talk without telling a lie.

But please give me some tips on how to be
smooth and suave as you are — how fitfully
you laugh and open yourself to banter
unbefitting a man not prone to slander.

Then words go back and forth and you tell me
that my problemo is essentially 
twofold: one, I need a new hair stylist.
And two, tell everyone I’m a pilot.

If they buy it, you are on your way, dude.
If not, flap your arms and pray for altitude.  

Salvatore Difalco writes from Toronto, Canada.