because often
they're true—
but let's suppose
life doesn't even hand you
any lemons;
how do you squeeze
a lack of cons into pros?
How far out of your way
are you willing to go
in order to make
the most of an absence?
In the case of the lemons,
your best bet
is to take them:
charter a plane
to the dark jungles
of Myanmar
and raid a dwarfish tree there
of its denied
bitter treasure—
as soon
as you can be
halfway sure
that the bloodthirsty baboons
who live there
aren't looking.
