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| A nap helps get things in order |
Very dangerous to just walk
About the house if you’ve got
Maybe twenty or thirty things
To do of relatively the same
Priority as it is quite easy to
Find yourself in a room having
First come there to look for a
Phillips screwdriver but
Forgetting that as you bump
Your toe on a bucket of nails
On the floor it’s obvious the
Garbage is beginning to stink.
So you leave the area to chase
Up a replacement garbage bag
And find that you’re out and
You wonder why the Phillips
Screwdriver next to the empty
Box of bags is calling your name.
Making a list doesn’t help since
If you’re at all two-handed you
Will put the list down then move
On without it until you are
Again lost in at least three jobs
Partially started—never partially
Completed. If any task were that
Close to fulfillment you’d stick
With it until the phone rings or
The timer on the stove goes off
Which it does just as you’re thinking
You check but there’s nothing
In the oven and you wonder
Who would enter your home
And secretively set the stove
Timer to befuddle you when
You are actually, finally, making
Progress on that list of jobs to
Finish? Checking the computer
Scheduler sometimes helps
But the whole week is clear—
Nobody loves you you conclude
Because it’s apparent you’re not
Meeting anyone for lunch. You
Must have set the timer—for
What? You stand by the timer
Twisting its dial to hope the
Body memory will remind you.
It doesn’t but you find your
List. None of the things you
Were doing are on it and none
Of the real tasks have been
Started. Now it dawns. You
Were to have stayed on one job
To see if you could complete
It before the timer rang.
No, you didn’t, and there’s
No way to know which was
The one task you set to finish.
The dryer signals completion.
You’re in need of a nap. You
Crash on the mancave lounger
And tell the dog to make room.
You’ll get the dryer when you
Wake up. What’s more important
Than having clean underwear?
c. J.S.Manista, 2016
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