frustration poem #gazillion

when you’re hunting for something
really important and can’t find it you
you turn up a lot of other stuff that
should’ve been tended to yesterday
or last week or last year or even before
they flood you with intents and
purposes unfulfilled and even if you
find what you were looking for and
that’s only half likely you end up in
total distraction self-recrimination
and go off and play a computer game

This article appears in May 15-21, 2014.