When Things Get Bad

I told you I couldn't write

WHEN THINGS GET REALLY BAD I…

 

•  Think about botox, collagen treatments and plastic surgery
•  Go on a diet
•  Go off a diet
•  Think about drinking
•  Go to a meeting
•  Mentally pack my bags and divide the furniture
•  Go shopping
•  Clean my closet
•  Sleep
•  Toss and turn
•  Plan a vacation
•  Pull the covers over my head
•  Think about quitting my job
•  Worry I am going to lose my job
•  Change my hair color
•  Write
•  Don’t write
•  Watch television
•  Clean my office
•  Do yoga
•  Clean the refrigerator
•  Do a hot tub
•  Buy new towels
•  Think about taking a day off
•  Work late
•  Go kayaking
•  Paint watercolors
•  Wish I lived somewhere were is was warm all the time
•  Beat myself up for not finishing my novel
•  Pick fights with my husband about unimportant things
•  Put my phone on voicemail
•  Surf the internet
•  Watch re-runs of Law and Order
•  Clean the bathrooms
• Vacuum
   

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

what a funny list. i see you are new here! Welcome aboard and don't let the recent issues here put you off....some of us older cafe patrons are a bit jittery but we'll get over it. I love this list.

[Dylan James]

That is amazingly funny. At first I was a little put off by the appearance of it, but I decided to read it anyway, and I loved it. Good Work.

[Wolfwind Words]

This was an awsome roll through a persons mind. Some many things we think about or do when everything else is topsy-turvey. I believe that you have all that you need to become a great poet. Keep up the great work. I look forward to anthing that you come up with. I like how this was very real and grounded in normal life. Thats refreshing for so many poems are up in the clouds, not on the ground.

[My Name is Brenda and I..]

You can certainly write. Maybe you could pick one of the items you have listed and write a poem about it. Lists are humorous...but they may not be poetry. But you can write. Good luck and welcome to the Cafe.

[IMOGEAN]

I chuckled a few times while reading this. I do believe, I have done all of those things, when things got really bad. I will no doubt do a few of them again. Amazing how alike we humans are...