Sometimes I just don’t want to do what’s expected of me or what I expect of myself.
All day I procrastinated instead of writing a serious poem about something that has been in the news recently. That was the prompt. I’ve been following prompts so far this month for my daily poems but today I just. Didn’t. Want to do it. What kept running through my head was, “I don’t want to”. So that’s what I wrote.
I Don’t Want To
I don’t want to read the news
I would rather take a snooze
I don’t want to watch TV
It’s nothing but reality
I don’t want to write a poem
I would rather clean my home
But I don’t want to do that too
So I will sit here in a stew
I don’t want to take a shower
I’m sure I smell just like a flower
I don’t want to feed the cats
They can find their own damn rats
I don’t want to post this blog
I’d rather feed it to the dog
I’m feeling something, maybe dread
I think I will just head to bed
