File Cabinet
drawers open
full of receipts,
reports, bills,
the important
and the nonsense.
It is a high rise
paper pack rat
paradise.
Envelopes spill,
drawers stick,
magnets decorate
its sides.
Folders share
contents
that make
no sense,
paint chips
and medical tests
combined
in a folder
marked green.
The keeper
of the cabinet
finds order
in chaos,
a filing system
of should,
shouldn’t
and oh
what the hell.
©Susie Clevenger 2012
On Mary's Mixed Bag Friday at Real Toads
we were asked to think about ordinary things,
tasks, items, aspects, annoyances, joys, etc.
of our lives and write about one of them.
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Comments
Good take on the ordinary things ~
Okay, I do save paint chips...I love their poetic names :D
Fun to read~
paper pack rat
paradise...
A round of applause for this incredibly apt metaphor!
Well done, Susie
It is a high rise
paper pack rat
paradise
I've cleaned mine out within the past year. Feels really good to throw out the 'what the hells' sometime! LOL.
You nailed it, SC. Well done.
Nice use of the prompt :)
This poem reminds me of a book my sister gave me, "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder" by Eric Abraham and David H. Freedman. Very interesting read, certainly relieved some of my anxieties about my lack of organization (ok, that's putting it nicely, it's better described as controlled chaos!)
It is a high rise
paper pack rat
paradise
ingenious. I've enjoyed this theme very much. :)