Day 211: What Too Busy Looks Like

it looks like losing
things you can't afford to lose at the moment you can't afford to waste
you should learn
you should learn
you should learn which you would if you weren't
so bizzy,
frizzy,
overwhelmed,
too hanging-on to see

anything
but that day off-off-off dangling, sun-warmed
off-off-off...if
you hadn't lost those files with those notes from that client
those phone-talk hours distilled
into capital letters
misspelled
and hasty

and now
too tired to remember
two documents to finish
that job
that leaves you drained dry and empty on the friday
when you forget to save

that snapping circle
and you think you're faster
faster more cunning
running
the next thing the next thing the next thing
runs the battery down

in so many ways

things switch off suddenly
and everything is gone
except consequences