Popular Poems About Choices

Eeny meenie miney moe,
my day is flying – watch it go!
The to-do list is like a rope
around my neck – there is no hope…

…that I can get out of this heap
when every task is layers deep
and messages won’t quit – BEEP BEEP!
and people keep on asking me…

…to do the things I promised them.
What was I thinking way back then??
My stupid optimistic mind
has bit me in my own behind!

There’s only one thing this could mean --
I have to fix my NO! machine.

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I'd like to speak to someone at the top
put in a personal request
could we please get an option for a premium subscription
I'd like to have access to retrospectevision...

the ability to look forward to the past
assess where things are eventually coming
making more informed decisions
determine better how to move forward
or at least see how we would potentially react
so we're not always blindsided by our own actions

let's face it...in the heat of the moment...
it's usually the emotion that leads...

Unless you are a fireman or woman
Rushing into a burning building is
Like jumping from an airplane
Without a parachute
Both defy common sense

The French gave us the word cliché
and so to honor Gallic grace
let's urge cliché to be passe
so no more discourse will debase
from any verse or any pen
where some foreseeable trauma
repeats its ugly life again
to flare into a melodrama,
or kindle more calamity
with ideation raised anew
antipodal to amity
which most of us already knew...

but still would not associate
a lack of tact with repeat fate.