The Making of Lists

This poem is dated September 3, 2015 in my journal and is about the making of lists. I know, I know, it doesn't seem that exciting of a subject, does it? It's one of those things in my life that is helpful but sometimes I wonder if it is just a waste of time? Writing a list is easy enough but the hard part, for me, at least, is remembering I wrote the dang list or finding the list after I put it aside! Thank goodness for the "notes" app on the iphone because I can make lists there when there is no paper! I still tend towards the hand written lists and even though I've gotten better at putting them in places where they are easily found, some still fall into that void of doom where the single missing socks and earring backs disappear to...never to be seen again!

Lists

I make lists

to try and remember

where my mind has been,

lists to remember

where my mind is suppose to go,

and lists to remember

that I wrote a list!

I list

in whatever order comes to mind.

I write my lists

on napkins,

paper bags,

on junk mail, ripped paper,

and sometimes

on a toilet paper square!

I make lists

like a forty something year old woman

with one foot into her post menopausal fifties!

I make lists

like an entrepreneur

trying to create the next big business,

and sometimes like a mastermind

plotting world domination!

My list making skills

are only nominal

but that doesn't stop me

from making more lists!

Pencil to paper,

pen to napkin,

or Sharpie to paper bag,

I will write the list

with whatever is at hand!

Sometimes bullet points,

sometimes numbers,

or at times just a dash!

Short list,

long list, craft list,

food list,

forget it's there tomorrow

kind of list!

It doesn't stop me from

continuously making lists!

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