<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531063" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just a Few Things I Don't Like About Writing Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do some of my best ideas<br>Wake me out of a sound sleep<br>At 2: 06 somtimes 3: 28 AM<br>Damn green digital numbers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I can't find<br>My beside notebook until<br>I bump into something<br>That wakes my wife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the time I've assured her<br>There has not been<br>An attempted break-in<br>Found the notebook where's the pen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally quiet as I can <br>Get to the bathroom<br>Turn on the light<br>Get comfortably seatd</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am sure I have<br>Forgotten most of the good parts<br>The ones that remain make little sense<br>Now that I am fully awake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is most of the heavy lifting<br>Done at my end of the process<br>If you don't think so <br>You're not the one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who carries my full wastebasket<br>Of drafts to our blue recycling can<br>It's only the paper worth saving<br>Not what's on them I assure you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fridays that blue sucker<br>Has to be rolled to the curb<br>Later I hear the automated arms<br>Of the truck straining to lift</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some of my best first tries<br>As they are unceremoniously<br>Carted away to be recycled<br>For someone else's next attempts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Note to self: Learn to write and revise <br>Live on the computer<br>'Do not save' will save trips <br>To the unvirtual garbage can</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll find other ways <br>To get my exercise<br>Gathering material<br>To write about</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As long as I can get<br>Enough rest before<br>Another great idea<br>Rudely wakes me up)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531063" data-title="Just a Few Things I Don't Like About Writing Poetry de Tom J. Mariani" data-description="Why do some of my best ideas Wake me out of a sound sleep At 2: 06 somtimes 3: 28 AM Damn green digital numbers Then I can't find My beside notebook until I bump into something That wakes my wife By the time I've assured her There has not been A..."></div> </div> </div>

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