SEND FOR THE WIG*

When your stuck and feeling stupid,

don’t stay there,

do something different.

Play dress-up.

Glam-up, give yourself a make-over.

Do like Tristram Shandy did

in the late-18th century British novel

by the same name:

get up, give yourself

a good, clean shave,

deck yourself out

from head to toe

in decadence.

Put topaz on every finger, if you must.

Make yourself fabulous, outrageous.

And why not use hoity-toity fashion phrases

while you're at it, that your mouth 
has never “frenched” before,

like haute couture.

To be the part you must play the part.

Become the costume.

What are you waiting for?

Send for the wig.

*Inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s, Big Magic