Category Archives: Personality

Sitting

I wonder why I’m feeling bored today –not into books (I’m reading two), or you,disinterested in what they have to saywhom I respect and love. No point of viewis snagging my attention, and no playinvites me to engage in what … Continue reading

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Increments of Luck

A light that has no purpose I can see,a signal that provides no fact to me,igniting nothing periodically,for 30 days so far (historically),offed after 4, today. A Wordle I each morning set to break,with guesses that try vowels, so I … Continue reading

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Listening Fail

She may consider you her closest friend.Her go-to interlocutors are youand most her life her sister. You contend with her enthusiastic points of view,her pacing judgments and her snap advice,the blurts and cold assertions how to do what she would, … Continue reading

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Online Challenges

I dislike clutter, and I’m organized.It’s rarely that I misplace any stuff.So I was rattled searching and surprisedto ransack for an hour. Not enough,I then found seeking online data tough,addressing questions from my CPA.I breathed to calm my tendency to … Continue reading

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Intensified Gruntling

Disgruntled waking from an early dreamthat fled like dust motes in the morning light,I surveyed the personae in my scene,and found near every character not rightor wrong exactly, but in some way quiteerratic now, less affable than then.Though no one’s … Continue reading

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Expiration

Why are you friends? they queried recently.Responding we go back so many years,I said although we’re vastly different, wehave managed mutual respect. Some tearswe’ve shed in anger – we sustained a breachat least two times, but found a pathway back.And … Continue reading

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White Men on the Spectrum with ADHD

The problem’s clear: no sooner did they testthan autism could everywhere appear,in crania where no one might have guessed.The problem’s clear. And in that diagnostic atmosphere,with ADHD recently assessed,there suddenly seemed cases far and near. Admittedly our situation’s stressed.It’s blame … Continue reading

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Not Without My Coffee

Awakened in the cottage where I spendmost Friday nights, abruptly jarred alert,I read the warning on my phone, discernedthe time, and promptly heard another blurtof urgency, to move avoiding hurt,to where the family was massed inside.But I brewed coffee ere … Continue reading

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Default Faulting

Expecting inattention all aroundfrom neighbors who seem mentally unkempt,I’m never stunned – this is no battleground,but I’ll admit to harboring contemptdeployable the second signs are found.But when there’s evidence that will preemptmy caustic thought, I’m swept with sweet surprise.A mote … Continue reading

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Wrapping Me

It took 3 days at home for me to rest.The punch lists have been checked and tossed away.Some tasks remain, it has to be confessed,but there’s a clearance present for today.And though I’ll have to shop and then to payfor … Continue reading

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