Conveyor Belt

There once was a board with four legs
It wondered it's difference from pegs
It thought and It thought
Almost to drought
Now how would it confront the kegs?

It still tried but it couldn't
creaked loud but it shouldn't
ask they who abuse
what do they find in its use
It expected an answer but - they wouldn't

Here comes our friend the board
In a massive line of recycling horde
Broken and shattered
Bruised and battered
It laid there on its own accord

Writing Activity: What Didn't Work Last Year?

For our first activity of the new year, we thought about New Year's Resolutions. I suppose resolutions are a way to purge ourselves of one bad habit or another and try to start fresh. We thought we would write about what did not work over the past year--not necessarily what is wrong with us, individually, but, perhaps, what we expected would be different than how it turned out.

Anyway, here are a few attempts...

2014, A year filled with numbers, grades, calculus and cost
as empty from motion as a patrick starfish laying on the coast
could it be a sneaky snoozy virus with me as it's host?
or am I trying to put the blame on anything to run away from my self-roast?

I know for a fact that I tried to act against it
But apparently acting has many genres other than action.
I once read the sit-ups from sleep a person does in a lifetime don't give an ab to show for it
If that were the case, I'd have had man abs on my brain burning to just...show...for...it.

time didn't work

or not right
it ran out too much
or too often

work didn't work
or it changed
and i didn't

at home i tried to do too much
went to bed late reading
woke up early

three alarm clocks rang
at three different times
i hate

i did what i had to
i spent too much money
or my wife thought i did

i didn't keep in touch
with the right people
or the wrong

i went along with it
i remember one night
in particular

i had to prepare dinner
but the ingredients were wrong
or not available

so i did the best
i could
or thought i did

my wife looked at me
out of the corner of her eye
and laughed

or said something funny
which is usually not the case
so that didn't work right either