So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Poem: August 4, 2019

A Mood

I raise a glass to the uncomplicated,
to the well-worn path from A to Z,
free from hard lessons and unsettled
law, and to the status quo when the
status quo is pleasant, to the obvious
choice when the status quo is not.

To the autonomic reflexes that pull
our strings and to sympathetic ears.
To confirming our biases, to preaching
to a crowd, to logical fallacies and
the joys of emotional responses.


To the food pyramid we like- Salt,
Sugar, Fat, Carbs, and Caffeine.

To air conditioning and easy A's
and minimum expectations

and listicles.

To our power to go nose blind
to our own stink, to look away from
the heaving and swelling of the world.

And to all those who advise us to
forgive ourselves before we forgive others.


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