Avoidance therapy

OH my when I don't want to do something ...

If only I could get paid
for thinking up ways
to rationalize
my tardy days
I would be rich indeed.

paint my toes,
cut my hair,
feed the cat,
vacuum the stairs,
clean the toilet,
write a verse,
carefully
remove all the lint
from the bottom
of my purse ...

a computer glitch
created an extension,
too irresistible to mention,
an impossible temptation
for my incorrigible procrastination  ...

an extra few days
to file my tax?
kids are at grandma's,
why not just relax?
and in ten days
just like always,
I will be dialing
at one to midnight
server busy --
and just past two,
I will get through,
just like I always do.
 

Author's Note

ha ha. I am in therapy and I promised to get at least some of my tax done by next group. Here I am, doing my taxes ...

Reviews

[Caradoc]

Nice. Yea...if only we could get paid for the creative ways we come up with the to do things other than what we should be doing. We'd all be filthy rich.

One thing I like about reading your work, KL, is that you can take some of the most mundane things and put a twist on them, whether it be a funny twist, or a naughty kitty cat twist, you always manage something interesting.

Well done.

-Cara

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. The mundane strikes me as funny most days. Btw thanks for other review. On phone andresponse not always cooperating. In park avoiding taxes.

[Caradoc]

Lol. Nice. You're very welcome. Have fun. :)

[Mr.Boffin]

wow love the rhyming...enjoyed reading this very much great job :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. And I am still procrastinating.

[FlamingPhoenix]

I LOVE this incredibly relatable piece--clearly the creative mind thrives on deadlines and a bit of pressure! Very nicely done :-)

[Lyn Anderson]

Is that what it is? I kind always thought so. When I was in school, I always left things to last min and did well. It was self-rewarding after a while, and hard to justify doing it any other way.

[kublakhan27]

Haha Sounds like the predicament many of us are going through these days....I really like the day-in-the-life feel of this piece...I've never been convinced that a reader truly knows a writer (you relate to them but you never really know them) but I do come away from this piece feeling like I've known a lot about the writer...well done :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. I have opened the shoe box. I have peered in. I have put something on a data key. Still have. So many days left ...

[redflutterby]

Are we related??? Seriously...lol!! Right now I'm so overwhelmed by what needs doing I'm ready to just run away with the circus, wanna join me?? ;-)

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes and home school the kids who don't liketo bathe anyways

[Sami Khalil]

"I will be dialing
at one to midnight
server busy --
and just past two,
I will get through,
just like I always do."

You have that wonderful talent of taking the mundane and making it magical and so exposed...Excellent...:)............

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. Lemons into limonda

[Sami Khalil]

Yep. True. You are welcome...:)..................

[Madalyn Beck]

Hahaha! Love your clever writes, KL. This is fantastic. I enjoyed this because, yet again, you and I are too similar. Procrastination is probably one of the few things I can do right! xo (: