a musing on psychology and grapefruit

'they may come to the conclusion  
that it creates an illusion' I love the inner locked rhyme and the message - I quite like my lemon-scented cleaner myself. Nice job miss, short, snappy, got a point. Good by me :)

Ha, thank you, LA. Just got the itch. :)

...wish I have that compulsion, I tend to make things messier when I'm stressing out. I liked this piece though.

Thank you. It was funny writing it.

An insightful and witty poem, which I must admit I love partly because I can identify so strongly with it. Cleaning and neurotic ordering of my room is how I react to extreme stress.

Thank you, Jack, I had hoped it would be well received as I had a decent giggle at myself over it. :)

I must say, I've never felt stressed enough to voluntarily clean :) -- but I definitely know that venting out loud thing!  

One small nitpick:  in the first stanza, you say "one may often feel", then throughout the rest of the poem you use "they".  Perhaps it might just work out better to use "they" in the first instance as well?

I love your second stanza, with the internal rhymes and consonance... I was beginning to think that rhyme and meter are dirty words around here!

Thank you for stopping in, I'll definitely take another look at those persons. :)
 
(Ha, yes, the cleaning is a fleeting bout of insanity.)

Does one judge a poet by their prose?
Or, is one even a poet if one only writes prose?

Me... I love the mental discipline of rhyme and meter and really enjoy proper poetry. Not a dirty word with me. But after becomming a fan of Tupac...lord knows why at my age...I enjoy well written prose. Just got to scratch around a lot.

Love this one though...

Thanks, Terry. Good to have your thoughts. :)

its funny, im a stress cleaner, i never really thought of it like that, gaining order in my seemingly chaotic world at the present moment, tis an intersting analogy, one that makes sense to me as well. and im nodding, grapefruit is not my choice of scent, but i do have mine that im obsessed with, and i refer to it as the clean scent....lol...very witty piece

I like how it manages to be personal while also being impersonal in it's diagnostic-type telling. And how it can be seen as quite sad, but how also there's little bits of humor that give it a kick. So that it manages to be two things at once, really.

both. You're very kind. :)