My Middle Name is Schadenfreude

I'm not telling you to be a cockroach.

Photo by 愚木混株 cdd20 on Unsplash

Cockroaches are adaptive and resilient 
because of evolutionary biology 
and because they are not prideful. 
Every minuscule drop of pride 
we possess and enable to fester
within holds us back by a year. 
We'd already checkoff that last box 
on the chores list, allow for grace 
after a disastrous first impression, 
publish…