Category Archives: Cognition

Answering (L’s Question)

Posted on January 7, 2026 by sputterpub

I’ve lost some friends, I said when I replied.(The question was who do I hang with now).Some moved away, retired, and residein states I seldom visit. Others bowto an infirmity and don’t abideactivity. The saddest have lost howto think or … Continue reading →

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Keys

Posted on January 2, 2026 by sputterpub

Attention to some inattention nowbecomes a treatment I prescribe today.The recent past implies I’m losing howto survey home before I go away.Appliance on, a bolt unthrown, conveythe message reinforced to some degreesthat though at large I’m managing okay,I have to … Continue reading →

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Losing It

Posted on December 31, 2025 by sputterpub

It doesn’t rise to OCD, to checkagain that tasks, on leaving home, are done.I never left an iron on, to wreckmy place, but every now and then I’ll runback to find power use or, what the heck,a door unlocked? So … Continue reading →

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Comment

Posted on December 19, 2025 by sputterpub

Your brain as a receiver could dispensewith several filters, now you’re fully grown.Perhaps the interventions make you tense,and though noetics aren’t nearly known,a subtle alteration makes some sense –a renovation deep within the bonemay modify your pathways and give pauseto … Continue reading →

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Separations

Posted on December 12, 2025 by sputterpub

Are we at heart our personalities?Do feelings need from me? Synapses reel…Considering dementia’s mysteries,I wonder what remains when neurons sealthe memory, or how some therapiessequester our emotions and appealto us to give them what we think they ask.Can I, bifurcated, … Continue reading →

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Shortfalls

Posted on December 1, 2025 by sputterpub

Attentive as I aim the camera lens,I cannot capture vision perfectly.And though I stretch for fitting words with pensor keys, I lack the broad capacityto cast in ink perceived realityas it deserves. And when I inward turnand plumb for careful … Continue reading →

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Finishing Work

Posted on November 29, 2025 by sputterpub

Accustomed to a long-term discipline,achieving what was chosen as a goal,is yes, success, and certainly a win,but leaves me feeling like it punched a holein me, that now requires self-controlto thrive without, without discarding yield.I want to keep the treasure … Continue reading →

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Who’s Judging Me?

Posted on November 26, 2025 by sputterpub

Who’s judging me? I never overhearanalysis with which I might agreeor argue, though I’ve many voices near.Who’s judging me? I’m hardly inconspicuous or wee,and modulation’s seldom in my sphere.Abhorring murk I trumpet honesty too often and too loud, I’ve come … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 23, 2025 by sputterpub

I cannot act unless I’m playing me,but I’ve a friend whose ego is so fair,she always tries to understand what weor you are likely to be feeling. Thereis yet a third who forms our company,but doesn’t give emotion any air.We … Continue reading →

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Outstanding

Posted on November 21, 2025 by sputterpub

“Another parking ticket?” (her dismayhalf-joking as she spotted 2 stores backthe Pay Station ignored when on her wayto lunch). She had collected quite a stackbut paid them all, I thought, before her datewith DMV (last week, at 10 past 2).“I’ll … Continue reading →

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