To Do List

File bankruptcy

 

Search for a more fulfilling job,

 

get my hair done, shave my legs

appear human

 

Feed the cats again

 

Apply for more student loans

So I can get a degree in something useful

like poetry, creative writing,  or journalism

I will write prose with flare and speak

the truth to masses; and they will listen

to my accredited opinion.

 

Watch my credit report online

before someone steals my identity and gets declined,

 

Plan that ultimate vacation to a foreign land

where I will appreciate art for the first time,

suddenly become spiritually enlightened,

fill the pockets of peasants and come home

with fine leather goods and rich red wines

for the ample dinner parties I’ll throw

with the numerous friends who adore my company

 

Lose that extra weight that inflates my chest, bubbles

my stomach and burdens my ideal dress size

with stretch material

 

Make that healthy dinner after a nice work out at the gym;

Differentiating from the light meal and cardio I did the day before,

 

Yes.

 

Quit smoking and take my birth control regularly

 

Stop eating prescription pills like blue and pink sweet tarts

 

Go to church and sing a hymnal, give to charity

 

Writer letters home on argyle stationery in teal ink

declaring I finally have purpose.

 

Reviews

[Pax Analog]

Hilarious!

These middle lines really underscore it all: "Plan that ultimate vacation to a foreign land/where I will appreciate art for the first time,/suddenly become spiritually enlightened,/fill the pockets of peasants and come home/with fine leather goods and rich red wines/for the ample dinner parties I’ll throw/
with the numerous friends who adore my company"

Particularly timely, since I was just reading some Nondual Sagely text as antidote to the "stuff and nonsense" of "too much information" -- we're acculturated to thoroughly underestimate the happiness-inducement of greater inner SPACE.

One of my favorite ironies is observing the anagrams for the word "desire": reside, i.d. seer, id seer -- rather uncanny to think that the very word we associate w/outreaching is itself anagrammically packed w/autonomous Buddha nature!

I guess we need a "To Don't" list too!

[Ed Hart]

you get double points for doing old "to do" lists

[John D Phillips]

You can get argyle stationery? I will have this.

I don't even have anything useful to say about the prosody of it; it's halfway in-between a found poem and a list poem and a letter poem; it's a corruption and an invention; it's a wisp and a slab. I love the deceptive depth of it, the winking sidearm movement under the honest handshake.

[Christopher Todd Dallas]

What if you responded 'yes' to every sales offer and every piece of spam in your inbox?
How soon before your identity, your personal and your financial life is ruined? Maybe 1 week at most.
50% of your 'To Do' list is a response to 'multi-tiered marketing', Direct Mail, Spam and sales calls.
And
If you don't forward this to 5 people, in 5 minutes you will not receive a free Apple computer from Steve Jobs.