Fast Approaching

The need to add, subtract and file

Takes my time, I do not smile.

Correlate, amalgamate, oh! Do I hate

Those numbers, lines, and stupid questions

Waiting for answers, gives indigestion.

My papers are ready, files copied and folded

Now off to the tax office, I am beholden,

For they deal with the government, so I am free

To print more paperwork, kill another tree.

The IRS needs copies of all, computer or fax, a real no, no.

My money, their money, who’s to say?

I’ll soon find out, come income tax day.

Procrastination

Procrastination, it takes imagination
to put off needed chores, for something not to bore.
Who said I had to clean the dishes? Let me now, begin my wishes.
Wish I were with a drink in hand, listening to a timpani band.
Cool water, warm beach, happily, easily within my reach.
Now laundry is piling up, let me go refill my cup,
Oh wait! I see a bit of dust, off to clean it, if I must.
The windows filled with streaks and grime,
Easily forgotten when viewing snail slime.
Since I am now outdoors it seems
my wishes have turned into dreams.
For picking up dog mess, turned into much less,
as I pluck flowers from new budded iris.
These things I must do, nothing ever new,
fill my life with mundane and the drab.
Did I hear mention of housewife rehab?
New ways to clean, faster machine
to sweep, iron, and polish. Oh yeah!

My day is done, I'm through with the fun,
or the boring, and stale and dull.
I put off my chores, and while my husband snores,
must plan for tomorrow, with great sorrow,
to fill one day with two days of chores.

Nothing

No thing. Nothing.

Reality TV shows have things going on, always.

But in reality, nothing much goes on.

No drama, no passions every 5 mins.

No thing, to keep me entertained –

          Every second of every day.

Nothing exciting happens, just life.

Normal, run-of-the-mill life.

No thing to keep me up at night,

Crying my eyes out over what I think

Someone did or said.

No thing to threaten someone over,

To create a false argument.

Nothing worth filming day after day.

Hours, minutes, seconds. No thing

To keep the editors snipping and bleeping.

Nothing at all, a happily normal life.

While nothing worth a reality show goes

On in my life, no thing will stand between my

Happiness, my loves, my life and me.

So nothing can stop me, nothing will hinder me.

No thing will hamper my success at life.