Category Archives: Cognition

A Little Schadenfreude

Posted on July 2, 2024 by sputterpub

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

Posted on June 28, 2024 by sputterpub

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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Feels like Homecoming

Posted on June 18, 2024 by sputterpub

For seven days I barely left my space.And then I ventured out a little bit –a market walk, massages to my face,a cautious lunch and one small glass of wine,collecting from my brother an embraceamid abating minor sore fatigue.My symptoms … Continue reading →

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Character Sketch

Posted on June 14, 2024 by sputterpub

She storms the doctors’ office when they fail to call her back,although there hasn’t been a long delay.She reads her own anxiety and goes on the attack,and won’t attend to anything we say.“What’s wrong with it?” she’ll challenge. “I just … Continue reading →

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Realization

Posted on May 28, 2024 by sputterpub

I often try imagining how youare sensing now, or what it is to besomebody else. But I don’t have a cluehow it feels to be clinically depressed.Although I can be low at times, or blue,my serotonin levels must be good.So … Continue reading →

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Forcing Fallacy

Posted on May 26, 2024 by sputterpub

I have to lie, although that means I throwa game we said we’d honor till we die.The whining for “I’m sorry” makes me knowI have to lie. It’s not my fault she’s bothered. She won’t tryexamining herself as cause of … Continue reading →

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Adults are Kings

Posted on May 23, 2024 by sputterpub

Adults are kings at first – they have to be.At least until the offspring spread their wingsthe parents are omnipotent – kids seeadults are kings. From birth that keeps the children safe, for thingsare hazardous, the rules securityto guard against … Continue reading →

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Solution

Posted on May 19, 2024 by sputterpub

I’d like to write today, but need to rest.A mystery of decades may relax,and offer up a pattern to suggesta pathway through a maze that’s paved with facts.A recent recollection has impressed,illuminating myriad attacks.I want to take a day to … Continue reading →

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Sketchy

Posted on May 7, 2024 by sputterpub

My memories of childhood are strong.I recollect from 3 to 13 morethan family or friends, but I am wrongat times about vignettes I pictured surefrom later years. It may have been the weed,the start of multi-tasking, classes, peers,but days conflate … Continue reading →

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Any Day But…

Posted on May 4, 2024 by sputterpub

A very merry unearth day, to you, and you,is senseless a la Lewis Carroll – true.To celebrate what you’re supposed to dois slash-and-burn or colonize a few?Effective as a Meatless Monday spew,attempting to awaken someone whois fatally attached to stupid … Continue reading →

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