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!

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lol..thank you for sharing your to do list..which I can relate to on so many levels..brilliant

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. wow ! ... tremendous ! ... (i think my to do list is un-publish-able) ...

[Zack Burton]

Honestly, if you never rhymed this at all, it would be even better. Totally embodies the chaos of life, really like it.

[Phil Roland]

"So I can get a degree in something useful
like poetry, creative writing, or journalism"

That part got me the most. How few people would tragically agree with you.

[Jibey]

I enjoyed it too.. the ultimate wish-list... gently self-deprecating and humorous ...

[Robin]

smiling and smiling some more

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

how could I not grin and deeply ~ VERY deeply appreciate each drip of sweet and acerbic honey since your to do list points out beautifully the mad hatter race through the rat maze life seems to have slapped on the wrist of society in bar codes and nights at bars writing to do on cocktail napkins while throwing peanuts into the mouth of an ogre~
I can't gush enough over your poetic~ just grin all the wider~ thoroguhly enjoyed!~

[Emily B]

well, if you're going to be doing all that, I might as well go take a nap . . .

:)

[Brad]

sometimes one needs goals and if not goals than dreams...and strive to accomplish at least half...nice list...i'm writing one now