Words and Moods

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090515

LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

Words are warmest
and most sharable
when in form of a parable.


090514

MUMBLED

The more my life gets tumbled,
the more my home gets jumbled.

Ditto for my mind.
Ooh, my jumbled, tumbled, crumbled mind.


090513

NEXT AISLE OVER, OVERHEARD

I just don't understand him:
he has no idea, no awareness,
no clue whatsoever
of how oblivious he is to my needs.


TODAY’S TRAFFIC

Take eggs with you
when you drive?

They'll be scrambled
when you arrive.


090512

NEGATIVE BALANCE

How long will it take
to techwrite this proposal?

Much, much more
than there is at my disposal.


STOLEN VIRTUE

We can be so cheerful
when we get our way.

When another does our work,
we can laugh and play.

We can be so giving—
when some others pay.


090511

ALCHEMIZING

Milking my mortality;
mourning morosely
(mostly to myself); moping;
manufacturing melodrama—

Making myself laugh!


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