Thoughts Scrambling
Am I out of line?
Just writing poetry
My thoughts are suffocating
Red ink bleeding
Letters are cultivating
Mind set Melancholy
Brood handwriting
Thoughts scrambling
Always pondering
A vigorous journey
Words magnified
Coffee aroma burning
Burdens are heavy
Need a place to escape
Living with anxiety
Writing is a remedy
Am I a poet?
I’m doing my best
Rhythm with harmony
Stay true and believe
scrambling scratchy screaming scribes
squeezing, squeaking, squawking,
swiftly sweetly swishing
swarthy swearing swimming
scrambling scratchy screaming scribes.
Three days ago, my ophthalmologist performed my first cataract operation,
All went well I must say,
But I am seeing double today,
So please everybody who I have answered with persistent determination,
Excuse my typing, incorrect spelling and my intense unrelenting frustration.
Scrambling down to Cracker Town
I’ll have a Ritz, a salt, a round.
Can I come too? Asked a blue tick hound.
If you promise to not make a sound.
Triscuits followed us all along the way.
Wheat thins so jumpy, they could not stay.
Had no idea what else we might see.
Butter, peanut butter, cheese spread, and me.
Oh my god look at the time how did it get so late all of a sudden I can't believe I've done it again and left this to the last minute minute what do you mean minute you must be joking try last second or how about nanosecond its ridiculous you know better than to think that you can pull things together at the last minute I mean second but no you have to do it every time don't you I mean when will you learn that this is so stressful and what if you make a mistake but then it almost
seems as
if time
slows
down
for
you
and
some
how
it
all
comes
to
get
her
Humpty-Dumpty sat on the wall and gambled,
That if he fell his yolk would not be scrambled.
Yet when he fell,
He cracked his shell.
Alas, no way he could be reassembled!
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