Things to Do in Hell

Grab lunch

Polish your silver

Try a new flavor of yogurt

Burn in a lake of fire

Smoke some weed

Overeat

Finally understand some things

Talk to Steve

Cry out breathlessly

Pay the electric bill

Go to the aquarium in the mall

Worry over the shape and color of your moles

Sell out the people you used to call friends

Learn how to bake bread

Feed the ducks at the lake by the highway

Exaggerate your earnings

Get elected

Mull things over

Attend a livestock auction

Pull down the statues of people who tortured your ancestors

Seek employment

Knit

Regret mostly everything

Paint the windows shut

Pull down the statues of your ancestors

Get down on your knees

Read Kierkegaard

Pick the kids up from Montessori

Lose your appetite

Linger

Imagine that hell is only an abstraction

DVR Homeland

Take another free breath mint

Cry out endlessly

Blame those closest to you

Love even the barest light pissing through the trees

Source: PoetryNow (2019)