Winter’s Lassitude
Perhaps it’s the winter days that has me in this patch of lassitude, here in the pale used-up corn stalks of boredom, where words won’t form and thoughts come in slow motion and without any great desire to be fulfilled. The sunny day falls on a layer of snow and cannot alter the artic bite in the air, yet without the glowing essence of a clear day, I might very well give way to purposeless stagnation.
I want to write, to create a marvelous ‘flash fiction’ piece, a poem of praise for the deity that claims my being, yet, the torpidity seems all-consuming and bids me crank up the leg-rest of my Lazy boy and wile away the day with patches of slumber. But I fight the off-kilter feelings and press on with words that might or might not warrant any qualitative analysis. So, I cling to the notion that out of the lazy meandering the Gods on Mt. Olympus might bring life to my fingers as they tap onward the laptop keys.
Wouldst I write about the political nonsense that is frightfully ambiguous and bordering on insanity? God, forbid! My takeaway from the blabber would be of no import and would only show my informed but unpolished political leanings that would please some and anger others. No politics, thank you very much…
What, then, Lazybones?
I shall try a poem for my good followers and then put the day away marked as ‘non-essential’ and ‘lethargic’!
Here, then, is the poem…ah, what name shall I give it? Ah, yes…
Wasted Day
How does one forfeit a day?
Wasted but adorned beautifully
By Sunshine and snow?
Tis a mindless pity to waste
So much energy and time
To say, ‘I don’t know’!
The blog and book must wait
Until tomorrow comes
For an intellectual glow!
After all, words are cheap
And book sales are small
So much for my folio!
One day, surely, I can miss.
My brain can use the rest
Tis no huge fiasco.
Tomorrow, then, I shall
Write a #1 bestseller
And all the world will crow.
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And so be it this Tuesday morning in January.
Billy Ray Chitwood – January 22, 2019
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