It's All Relative

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Thoreau

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

then I'm bat-s**t crazy.

But then again.

I may be just fine.

Not keeping track of time.

Making words rhyme.

Able to squeeze a quarter from a dime.

Lunacy's pit is lined with lime.

Covered in slime.

Perhaps I'm just stuck.

In life's muck.

Running out of luck.

Spinning my wheels.

Whilst relativity's agent is busy fusing deals.

Could also be that I'm only impaired

because ...

... E = mc²

Author's Note

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Thoreau

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

Great write to ponder on Pete. I agree with Albert’s words as I do on the author’s note. Maybe enthusiasm is replaced by cynicism as we get older giving us that grumpy old man title!

[Pete]

Lol. indeed andrew! it is said that "familiarity breeds contempt". methinks all is relative. be well friend ...

[Samuel Dickens]

Squeezing quarters from dimes--that's my specialty. I use paper plates over. (Just the ones that are still clean) I'd say this poem exudes enthusiasm. And rhymes. Sorry to not offer advice on that E=Mc2, for it has me literally hornswoggled.

[Pete]

Lol. i grew up not having much, so frugality is ingrained in me. everything is relative (considered in relation to something else) so who's to say what is insane? - we probably all are in some respects.

impaired
E=mc(squared) - Einstein's theory of relativity

he thought everyone was insane and some thought he was. genius is often confused with insanity (thinking outside of the box).

everything is relative. just having a little word fun with it. thank you Samuel ... :)

[Samuel Dickens]

Poverty certainly shaped me, too, and I am definitely frugal.

[Pete]

frugal vs. cheap could can be seen as relative depending upon one's perspective ... :)

Lol. i wash paper plates too sometimes if i think they still have some life in them - don't like to see anything thrown out ... :)