Standard

Standard

 

 

a beer and

a castoff of leisure

counting seconds until responsibility

 

a little foam fantasy to top it off

slam the mug down on the table

time to get back to life

 

the karaoke was a bit too country

and I'm tired of stepping on peanuts

salty shoes

 

laces untied

misfit giggles

too drunk to stand any more

 

I love nothing for a living

set my alarm

just to shut it off

 

and close the blinds

to accentuate

my mood

 

inertia

is a blind clock

hearing me remain

 

very, very still.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

9/19/22

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

It’s all routine for some. Routine! Routine! Living the mundane. No wonder we want to switch off.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, andrew,
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

Be Still My Heart… and listen to the Lark in the Meadow of Dreams… walking by Mountain Streams… Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Pat...
j.

[Lorry]

"Inertia is a blind clock, hearing me remain very, very still."
Has someone had some time off work and is due back imminently perchance?
Or just a really good weekend? 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Lorry...
j.

[JD Major]

Jacob, you have a way of writing what you feel, and what others (including me) often feel, that goes right to the heart of a thing! You've a fan in me,
JD

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, JD,
j.

[W. Barrett Munn]

I love the lines "set my alarm/just to shut it off. And the karaoke mention sent me reeling. Quick story:
I had a good friend (now deceased) whose son sang country Karaoke, and my friend pestered me to go see his son because he was "so good". I went. He is pretty good. We all sat together and the kid seemed nice as he could be.
A few months later my friend called to tell me his son was in prison: for murder. Life sentence. Seems he was one of three who got drunk and raped a woman and tossed her off a bridge.
And I sat right next to him one time. That is chilling in retrospect.

Winston

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Okay that story is really scary....
thank you for sharing, Winston,
j.

[Ken e Bujold]

A blind clock, though i misread at first, and absently left out an l..which seriously didnt harm the read at all.
Love it J

ken

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Ken,
j.