Nothing Doing

I thought about doing something yesterday
But it got away from me, the thought
So I did nothing….but think
About the thought
of doing something
While doing…..

John G. Lawless
©12/5/2022
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Wolf Avatar
December 5, 2022 at 6:40 PM
You have revised Shakespeare's 'Nothing comes of nothing' for the 21st century! Wolf, as in Fox
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December 6, 2022 at 1:44 PM
..."But something may come of nothing if it is the something that is being done:
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