Marvelous World: Ersatz Poem: Stopping By Bed on a Summer Evening

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Ersatz Poem: Stopping By Bed on a Summer Evening

"But I have promises to keep,
And months of academic scheduling to finish before I...
Oh wait, I can finally go to sleep now?
But maybe I'll watch some tv drama first.
Planning is a heinously draining exercise,
And I didn't even get to read anything tonight.

Damn."

~Frost, his soul having opted--in an alternate karmic reality--to become a 21st c. grad student and failed poet instead (this one has never even *been* apple-picking, let alone had time to observe patient quiet spiders!)

1 comment:

Tina said...: Frustrated and exhausted? I'm sorry.; June 19, 2012 at 8:56 AM

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