This is the counsel you didn’t ask for.
This is the advice you could live without.
These are the decisions
that are separate from your experience
and might not speak to your current situation
but nonetheless impact on your life
immutably.

This is what you get
when you live in a society
where authority is respected
and leaders are out of touch
and men – fucking men –
are always ready to shove
their two cents into anything
that stopped moving for two seconds.

You will be told what to do
how to handle the situation
and how to feel in the process.
It is the way of things now
same as it ever was.
You will take the two cents
whenever it’s been provided
and you will like it.