Sometimes you mop the floor with tequila,
accidentally, because that’s what you spilled,
and it’s probably better not to have partaken
of that, anyway, but it’s definitely
better not to waste.
Sometimes, that’s how the universe
talks to you, if you’ll listen.
And sometimes, you should be lapping it up
off the floor, because your intuitions
about the universe are completely wrong.
Sometimes, it’s hard to know, at a glance,
the difference between a crow and a raven.
Jessica Wierzbinski is a frequent contributor to Colorado Central Magazine and a sometime college English teacher living in a quirky little mountain town in central Colorado. Her ongoing writing projects include a collection of poetry and Woke as Folk and Broke as Fuck, a collection of personal essays about growing up in an ultra-Catholic, Midwestern household well below the poverty line. She is also working on a crowd-sourced collection of advice for young girls called Things I Wish Someone Had Told me As a Young Girl. Find her online at jessicawierz.com.