I like this poem, however, overcoming inertia is not a problem with which I live. I always keep busy, sometimes just reading or listening to music. Maybe I should write a poem, “How to Overcome Drive.” — kenne
How to Overcome Inertia
by Betsy Mars
Set an alarm. Don’t hit snooze.
Set more alarms
at fifteen minute intervals.
Let your phone fall beneath the bed
where it can’t easily be silenced.
You have to reach to quiet it.
Doze off while thinking
of ways to overcome your inertia.
Encourage the cat to sleep on your bladder.
Remember you are nothing
if not productive.
Forget the bird beyond the pane
unaware of your watching.
Feel the urgency of days and news
forever passing without observing.
Scroll your mind’s endless listing
awaiting scratching. Check
your time, just existing.
IMAGE:Still Life with Sleeper by Henri Matisse (1940).
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I thought about what I have gotten really good at during the pandemic and came up with the obvious answer: inertia! Of course, while practicing inertia so effectively, it was difficult to write. And then how to describe the…
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