nothing to add

it's dear abby day
on the phone.
everyone having a bone
to pick,
a complaint to file,
an issue
with the world,
their world, small,
nearly thimble
sized. but i listen.
i almost
always listen.
but my advice is vague
and cliché,
there's hardly
anything they don't
really know, no
words of wisdom
that I can say.
take off the shoe
and shake the pebble out,
you offer.
turn the other cheek,
or you're bigger
than that.
take the higher road.
life is short so,
so....but you having
nothing to add to that.