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A Day in the Life
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A Day in the Life |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere 
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Gray overcasts the day as well as my mood. Stuck at my desk with little to do but sit and founder on the spirit sucking gloom. The day stretches out in front of me in an endless line of minutes. I’m longing for home and the respite of sleep that awaits me there. Daydreaming with half shut eyes about the bliss of nothingness when something to do breaks the monotony. Like the walking dead, I make my way to the copier, do my business then I’m done. Five minutes dead and gone. Back to the murderous boredom killing my mind. Seeking stimulation in a stick of gum and a sweet dab of hand lotion to stir my senses with pleasantries, I wait in a lighter shade of gray. The clock has drug its hands though a lackluster lunch to the eternity of the afternoon. Like gangrene to a wound, apathy sets in slowly taking over. So things to do with no deadline sit undone until the last minute. A glimmer of anticipation flits across deadpan eyes glued to the clock ticking towards the end in sight. My day has succumbed to a handful of minutes being counted off by the time clock. I am prompted by patience to wait for the last minute to clock out. And as if by magic the clouds part and the sun begins to shine. |
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P.U Stinkenbaum Member Posts 388 No Fan Of Exhaust Fans |
An attractively tall poem Lori Rhoden that seems to be summed up in this relatively tiny, yet powerful slice: quote:Gray days always seem so heavy and confining don't they? (...even when the sun's out). Take the rest of the day off and don't go home. Pass the Glade if you're going to do that here... |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
PU I have to go home, otherwise the car automatically takes me to the grocery store or Walmart and I'm just not in the mood. And if I were to break out of character and do something spontaneous, like get a massage, my whole world would implode from the shock. I appreciate the thought. ~L |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hi lori, the mood will be better for sure, going for a walk or to Theater I don't like to be confined either, mind goes silly and gloomy too, like in your poem, nice to share it yann |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Thanks for reading Yann, glad you can relate. ~L |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Glad I'm retired. As we get older time just sits on us until we wrestle our way free for those brief moments. |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
I keep hoping I'm just a late bloomer and that if I ever get a chance to retire is when I'll really bloom and come into my own. ~L |
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