How Are You

It's a statement, not a question.

How Are You

 

 

By Elton Camp

 

 

When a casual acquaintance asks, “How are you”

You needn’t be concerned that you answer true

 

Even if you actually look and feel as bad as hell

The correct response is, “I am doing very well.”

 

Don’t any accounting of your many ills begin

It’s a statement with no question mark at the end

 

Even if you should begin to recount all your woes

In one ear and out the other is where it all goes

 

Even if you should say, “I am very nearly dead,”

“I’m fine too,” is most likely what’ll then be said

 

For people very rarely will listen to what we say

They try to be polite, but to escape without delay

 

If you doubt that what I say is actually correct

Just stop mid-sentence and see if they will detect