Just Do It

Those things we know to do,
promise to do, believe eventually
we'll have done them...just do them.
Sure, it's an ironic day, season, time
to start, but it's a Thursday,
and that's all it is. A Thursday
with company, with abundant food,
with stress and roiling emotions
and sibling rivalries erupting
but it's a Thursday. And we know
to do those things, promise to do,
believe we'll eventually do them
but we can relieve part of the stress
by starting now, this Thursday
we know by other names,
anticipate more keenly, dread more,
but a Thursday we can just do it.