Wake up early
Go to bed early
Cut out alcohol
Eat whole foods
Stay well hydrated
Stop watching prom

Do everything early
Walk 10,000 steps per hour
Cut down your scream time
Read for 1,000 minutes each day
Lift weights 3-4 times per night
Spend 6 minutes per day building
Skyscrapers in the sand

Stay well early
Go to bed 3-4 times
Per night. Wake up
6 minutes per day
Cut out all foods
Eat 10,000 foods
Stay high rated
Read while screaming
Do everything 3-4
Times per day

Do this for 6 months and people
Won’t even recognize you
Yes, that’s right: you will no longer
Be recognizable: neither to yourself
Nor others. On top of this
You can count on
Both fingers, no longer
Receiving a simple
Stone of recognition
Every minute of the day
Ask yourself: don’t you
Not want to be recognized?

is the author of Famous Americans, selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2002 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Non-Existent Facts (2018), and, with Pirooz Kalayeh, Shitting on Elves & Other Poems. A Professor of creative writing and English literature at Yonsei University/Underwood International College in Seoul, Korea, he serves as Creative Writing Director.