Category Archives: Personality

Map Madness

I’ve often felt anxiety asleep –a dream of travel, racing to connect,or trying amid hurrying to keepmy stuff with me, to gather and inspectthe needful. If an omen, I neglectconsidering how it should guide my views.Last night the vision morphed … Continue reading

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Preempting Perfect

Preemptively I took on yesterdaythe work I would have put my back in now.I thought that might enable me to playmore freely at today’s events. That’s howI figured then, as if I could defraybackwards, like I’d the power to endowimprovement … Continue reading

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Hot Water

I had to fast to satisfy a lab.Not even morning coffee was okay.Accepting that (it’s rare), I didn’t crab;I sipped hot water substitute today.But leaving early was the harder play,without the time to meditate or write.I put good obligations on … Continue reading

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RSVP

I’ve known some individuals quite nice,but silently pathetic and reserved,as if their parentage did not enticeinitiative, as if they were unnervedby wounded mothers, loving at a price,or weakened dads from stalwart humor swerved.It may be such producing sad result –a … Continue reading

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Life Expectancy

Nobody knows how long the fates have spunthe thread. Perhaps such ignorance is best.Imagine certainty about the run –then hubris blooms and twists. I never guessedI’d be here now – foreknowledge would have doneme wrong. For sure I tread no … Continue reading

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Nonsensical

I find it difficult to notice sights,although I’m not as senseless as the folkI walk among. Perhaps it’s youth’s delightsdistracting, but I often yearn to pokea back or interrupt a gaze at phonewith “Pay attention,” not barked stridentlybut low, suggesting … Continue reading

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Compensation

Employing several others as I pliedmy accidental trade, I only soughtintegrity and honest effort triedwith their momentum, for I never thoughtI’d find a twin. I paid a wage and taughta bit, but each selected their own how.Reviewing, I approve of … Continue reading

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Check

I’ve overloaded Mondays recently.What used to be a rest is growing jammedwith crunches, bins, and print activity.Add shopping, and I feel a little slammed.There’s verse to write and edit, and latelya dose of weekday prose has been programmed.Complaining is a … Continue reading

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Fundament Exposed

Conversing with a fundamentalist,I wasn’t shocked to learn he got his newsfrom other streams than where I swim, and missedhow good are many hearts. Then too, he viewsfew people face-to-face, for he eschewsthe buses, trains and planes I frequent here.A … Continue reading

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Her Left Shoulder

Arthritis in her shoulder on the leftis causing chronic pain the doctors treatwith shots of cortisone for now, but cleftis the prognosis – time may soon defeatthe steroid – surgery is probable.For now, she’s lifting less and often seeksaccommodation. Getting … Continue reading

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