Unconscious Bias
...Ad Hoc Ad Litem: CHAPTER 1
Conscious/ness is a product of decisive reasoning; a sound mind, and based on scientific averages, a standard knowledge of what is right and, what is wrong.
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Categories:
nonproductive, analogy,
Form: Free verse
no more shoulds or musts
...there are no more shoulds or musts
because I am retired now,
every minute of every day is a choice
I choose to play,
to paint, to cartoon, to enjoy my dogs
I turn into a vegetable in front of ...
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Categories:
nonproductive, retirement,
Form: Free verse
The Agenda
...We meet as a committee
The same four people monopolize it
They are the loudest, but not the most intelligent
I have no idea why the other five of us are here
I try to speak a few times but the ...
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Categories:
nonproductive, work,
Form: Rhyme
Not Writing Today
...Our words today are disjointed, banal, bland, maybe nonexistent.
No emotions attached, for words are not even peeking out of crevices.
My muse is apathetic, emotionless, uninterested, uncommunicabl...
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Categories:
nonproductive, writing,
Form: Free verse
Rendered Self Lame Courtesy Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
...Handy dandy blues clues plain
all purpose favorite refrain
i.e. "impossible mission"
courtesy complimentary doppelganger
G.I. ("Government Issue", "General Issue",
or "Ground Infantry") Jane
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Categories:
nonproductive, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Flash You By
...Tell me why the emphasis on life
Is such a nonproductive manner
To cease and decease
When what we exist
Of bone and Flesh
Only cremates
Within a disintegrating form
This is torn between
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Categories:
nonproductive, beauty, blessing, deep, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Old Couple
...Their lawn chairs in the sun
Outside a standard door--
They are considered nonproductive.
They passed their buying power
For the next to last measured lot.
The old man putters about the yard.
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Categories:
nonproductive, age,
Form: Free verse
Time Waits For No One
...As the clock turns and your ways remain the same
You don't stop and realize you have a good thing
Your eyes are closed can't see the end of the road
To late to turn back now your luck is gone
Suc...
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Categories:
nonproductive, lost love, naturesilly,
Form: Concrete