Tidy my room? Me? Don't be ridiculous!

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AlCowie
Member

since 2011-05-13

Posts 92
London, UK

0 posted 2011-05-30 07:21 PM

My basil plant is flowering on my desk
Those graphic stems shoot up towards the sun
Discarded petals make an awful mess
Just scattered like spent cases from a gun

Around the base. I'll have to clear it up
But, to be fair, the mess is the whole room
I look at it; I'd rather have a cup
Of Earl Grey tea than face impending gloom.

My gut convulses, pain of work to do
(The only job that's worse is paperwork)
It penetrates my brain with stifling glue
Inanimates, collapses me, I shirk

The task, and daily all it does is grow
Encroaching on my space like fungal rot
A mushroom that requires atomic glow
To blast and clear this space and cut the knot

That grips my stomach with it's putrid grasp.
Ridiculous, it even makes me sweat
Yet underneath my room's unshaven mask
Is comfort, calm, productive, it's no threat

And yet I still will always wait a while
And hate myself as books and papers stack
Around me in their quiet accusing piles.

If I'd one wish, I'd have the tidy knack...

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-05-30 07:52 PM

Hah! Oh boy, does this fit me to a T, I don't know what does. I am a slob. Besides being a slob I'm old and forgetful, and those two do not get along too well with each other.

Enjoyed your poem. Thought the rhyming was great and the flow . . . er . . . flowed.

~ Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock ~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2011-05-31 08:44 AM

Haha, Alexander, this is a great "confession-write" and you brought smiles!

You have not seen my son's room! You would sigh in satisfaction and feel comforted. Of course it's a highly interesting chaos, you can't take in everything at once, to begin with the door which is richly painted and full of quotes etc., on the walls there is no free space, great oil paintings next to posters and there is even a Swiss cow bell (it could be all shiny, but dust is settling nicely on it!), the shelves overflow, the desk too, and it is a risky business to step into the room for all the things on the floor ... But, I imagine that it is the same with you, when he finally decides to clean and to put some order into things, he does it better than anyone else, but ... when was the last time he did it?

Sorry, this was a Mother's venting! Pssssst!
Just don't forget to water the basil!
Love,
Margherita

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

3 posted 2011-05-31 10:52 AM

Make it English Breakfast Tea and I will join you...not to help you clean it up...just to watch and give you moral support

btw, loved this phrase:

"my room's unshaven mask"

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