Packably speaking, mentally packing is arduous and
\nlike its cousin, list-making, is easily crossed out and restarted.<\/p>\n
Some of my kitchen utensils and overripe junk drawer quiver
\nin anticipation that they’ll be finding new places to disappear
\nwhen most needed and reappear, straight-faced.<\/p>\n
The comedy of errors that is the printer table, a repurposed
\ntelevision cart, hosts an orgy of discarded magazines.<\/p>\n
Other hideables and tuck-aways will be handled finally and firmly
\nwith the brusqueness they should have received originally.<\/p>\n
All those socks, all those socks, and his watch
\nin need of a battery remain in the open, packably speaking.<\/p>\n
My error, a comedy with no test audience, was to procrastinate
\npainting that antique dresser, which looks more and more
\nlike something I’ll see on someone else’s Instragram.<\/p>\n
Beckoning still is a basement, forbidding and dank,
\ndaring me to turn my list into action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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