Category Archives: Cognition

I’m Not the Kind

“I’m not the kind of person who does that”a dear friend often says, and every timemy brain a little wonky goes, our chatderailed a moment as within I chimewith “Kind? Are you a template? A format?”A person is a person. … Continue reading

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Fact/Fantasy

I first discovered Greek mythologywhen I was 12, permitted on my ownto Saturday-ransack the library,and cycle home with books to read alone.Outside or in my room with fantasy,I was content, inspired, charmed and well.I’d moved from fairy tales and soon … Continue reading

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Vestibules

It’s seldom that I slumber through the night.I gave up cannabis, and I’m so oldI wake up oftentimes. Such sleeping lightmakes several opportunities, all told,to linger between dream and conscious sight –a zone of interest, semi-self-controlled.Such vestibules I frequent, where … Continue reading

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Self-Awareness

I read the Bible years ago, in full.Although it bored me some, it also madea deep impression. Not religious pull,but glimpses at the humor we’ve downplayed.Creation’s motive also crept on me –conversion into matter was in there.I took away the … Continue reading

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Like Minds

I understand the satisfaction feltin ordering the playing cards from handto winning solitaire. I watch. I melt.I understand. He’s 5 years old, and softly he’ll demandno auto-finish. From the moment dealthe wants array the way the maker planned. He hosts … Continue reading

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All Kinds of Kind

An idiot savant is somewhat wise.A child can perceive what many won’t.A moron might be hired to advise.It’s more a case of wherefore than of don’t.Cognition comes in any type of form.Insanity is rarely absolute.And as for nailing down a … Continue reading

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Past Problems Present Ploys

I certainly don’t want us to returnto good-old-days when children weren’t heard,and women knew their place and couldn’t earn,and Master was a titulary word.Of mental health we then had much to learn,but consciousness can generate absurddegrees of understanding and excuse,cascading … Continue reading

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Combative

Whenever I in speech appreciatea day off after office work or kids,my interlocutor is bound to statethat nothing in my circumstance forbidsdevoting nearly every day to me.And that was even true ere I retired –my busyness is picked deliberately;by diverse … Continue reading

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A Little Schadenfreude

A friend declared she’s furious abouta minor retail act she disapproves.It minded me how often she will spoutwith indignation, like its flavor moves.The way my mother gathers energyfrom negative emotions, I well know.I turn the scope to next examine me … Continue reading

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Distracted

Thrice seventeen was in my head today,increased a hundredfold, to be exact.It didn’t bear significance, I say,reminding me of neither thought nor fact.But pondering, I spilled to my dismaya little salt. I let that dream distractme mixing saline for a … Continue reading

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