As Slowly as Possible

Try to live as slowly as possible –
don’t panic, it really it feasible:
take all day to get dressed,
for a week be obsessed
with watching paint dry. Marvel
                as slowly as possible

over whether space is collapsible
in the very long run. Stay unstressed,
innocent, wondering, gullible –

avoid ever being sensible,
be jobless, slothful, indefensible,
unjustly, arbitrarily blessed.
And don’t fall in love – second-best
is having a heart only flammable
                as slowly as possible . . .

Tom Vaughan


If you have any thoughts on this poem,  Tom Vaughan  would be pleased to hear them.