Rebooting Monday

Flat-As-A-Pancake Day, bereft

Of froth and babble full of dread -

Mundane work-a-day 

SOMETHING must be done! 

Let's do it!

Smile. At everyone, some will stick ...

And come flashing back.

Run up the stairs

Make the coffee and

Hand round a crisp, white paper bag

Full of very sticky toffees.

Tip a  beggar 

Listen to a concerto

Or a rock band and

At the beginning of every email

Say something ...

Different. Kind, perhaps. 

Remember, when you 

Actually finish something,

How it felt when you were in the 

Juniors and your teacher

Pressed a gold star on your 

Careful scrawl.  Good eh?

Pick a moment when everything

Would otherwise be too tedious to bear -

Take yourself off to the Caribbean

Lie on on a beach with your lover

Let the  surf nibble your toes... 

Or, if this is too much,

Be ten again and play

Hide and seek in a bright Spring  wood

With your sister ...

See! It's working isn't it?

Already you're looking forward to Monday,

And have change jingling in your pocket

To buy toffees 

And to  tip a beggar. 

(Beach and wood may be switched if necessary, and if you have no sister, a brother will do!)