Timewise

1st draft written and published January 30, 2017. Expected to rewrite it a lot but didn’t change much. The last two lines are new. For Nextdoor syndication where it doesnt add the headline or featured image, this is a poem called ‘Timewise’. Click the link thou lazy critics.

Those memories countless of innumerable days—idle-
Lost in distractive circling-screw, app to app or magazine to book to brew
Net dependence unweathered, seeking of The Magic Bullet for one’s ills and failings
Goalposts forever shifting, as projects multiply, mutate, fall aside, recycle
Interpolation of self-help pointers and cure-all systems, all seeking ever, something to tie together more than ephemeral progress-process
Naught! Never yet came the day..
Perseverance, they say, is key, from goals to sandwiches, sober to studious, job hunt to dating game –
Yet no system will save him, no method can quash that which impels him
To tie together, finally, one day, a victory, to knot the cord again the next day and next –
Limit permutations. Yet also note new ideas
—- [not to plunge in headlong that instant though, keep eyes on the structural glue]
To each there is a way and a season, and mine is not yours, nor any others’ mine
To each there is a way.. To structure. To reduce. To accumulate those 10,000 mile steps
No more to fall to circling, circling, circling, whether of the Feeds-reading or the many substitutions –
To cut that which stops you for days on end and after – & …

Start. Continue. Be Timewise. Organized.
Stop. Moving. The Goalposts.

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