Shirts
Change your shirt, avoid plaids.
Call your dad though he’s been dead for 20 years.
His number, of course, is still in your phone.
Don’t be a shit and argue over tiny bits
with family and such,
politics, diet, sports.
Try something new, perhaps, maybe,
in a colorful positive way.
I wear so many shirts that I don’t even like.
Give ’em to Goodwill, will yourself to
finding your own true style, by and bile.
Stop following the news but keep marching.
Just make your sign bigger so the
passing cars can actually read it.
Chris Callard
Chris Callard lives in Long Beach, CA. His poems have appeared in Beach Chair Press, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Spillwords, The Writing Disorder, Ariel Chart, Witcraft, Cadence Collective, and One Sentence Poems. His short fiction in 10 by 10 Flash Fiction Stories, Maudlin House, Friday Flash Fiction, Bright Flash Literary Review, Witcraft, Ariel Chart, Gemini Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, A Story in 100 Words, and ZZyZxWriterZ. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions.