MISERABLE

Can’t fake being happy?
Then celebrate your misery.
 
Moan constantly.
Declare you’re pissed
 
off. Broadcast a list
of grievances and missed
 
opportunities. Curse!
Put your fist through glass
 
if that helps, or, better still,
makes it worse.
 
Drive around town
with MISERABLE on your windscreen.
 
We’ll get it: you’re down. Really down!
 ‘Poor bloke,’ we’ll say. ‘What a state
 
he's in.’ And then we’ll appreciate
how much we have to be grateful for.