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Today's poem or short story prompt is "misspent".
To spend improperly or extravagantly; squander
FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS
ReplyDeleteAND COUNTING
Someone asked me
to comment on the word "misspent".
There's no reasonable place to start
Of all the moments
(over 1.8 billion seconds and counting)
I have spent,
only 42 are unambiguously
NOT misspent.
I kept track.
Calculating the other categories
would take a lot of time
so I'm not going to do it.
Mike Fedel
July, 2013
Misspent
ReplyDeleteIn a glorious turnaround
A ruthless roundabout
In a country that doesn't understand that
You drive in a circle until you see your exit
I kept driving
And driving
Afraid of what others thought
Imagining they possessed the bright knowledge
Innate inborn central
Never veering off in the wrong direction
Happily traveling home
Where loved ones waited
Catherine Powers
July 28, 2013
Copyright 2013
happily past the unhappily passed
ReplyDeletequandary of squandering
one's mis-penned youth,
no longer is it a finite economy,
despite ever-clearer mortality,
the finitest coin of all
and really it wasn't so badly penned,
all those letters and stories and
journal entries to an audience,
all all about not so much words after all
as entering and voyaging between
this me and the you at hand
-- LisaLou