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I Laid Me Body Stomach Down Atop a Grassy Knoll

I laid me body stomach down atop a grassy knoll... here at Highland Manor Apartments earlier today Juneteenth 2022, (a pitch perfect spring day) with serious intent to read seat of the pants suspense thriller The New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary. Invariably, yours truly quickly experienced drowsiness, succumbed to deep sleep and dreamt being linkedin with livingsocially off the grid among ecological, liberal, social minded people progressive in act, deed, and thought versus participating in consumerist paradigm. As a conscious conscientious counterpart the missus shops with a conscience and yours truly considers her price savvy when she purchases groceries at ALDI, Giant, LIDL, or other supermarket. Impossible mission to adopt modus operandi, whereby wife would entertain notion to husband energy garnering fruits and vegetables courtesy sweat equity since we lack basic homesteading skills, nor consider either of us adequately financially solvent to contact compatible intentional community since requisite criteria require a healthy monetary stash of money. Unlikely substantial windfall will appear out of the blue, nor grandiose wish to draw winning lottery ticket, thus sobering truth to burnish marketable skills finds me seek assistance courtesy office of vocational rehabilitation in general and counselor Donna Marchese in particular, which most likely entails securing training to learn Microsoft Office Applications. More precisely, some familiarity exists regarding understanding computer software since admission of foolhardiness now averred how countless golden opportunities slipped thru these ofttimes sweaty fingers. Though never successfully completed, received funding back in the day from: CETA, O(ffice) of V(ocational) R(ehabilitation) twice before whereby the former and/or latter program allocated unspecified dollars (poor Ray McNeil, the first OVR counselor, whose tiresome love's labour's lost for naught) in an effort to acquire gainful employment, which in all honesty sabotaged cause of that bugaboo severe social anxiety more specifically diagnosed as schizoid personality disorder; no shame to admit mental health crisis.

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