She Left Me Roses By The Stairs

Procrastination is a disease
Caused by busy minds
and lazy bodies
Incurable by pharmaceutical means
Only my the mind can overcome.

Habits are hard to build
Harder to break after
many years of doing

We are all made of tiny habits
Some better than others
Some causing more grief than
Others which are hidden

i before e except after c
and wherever else it pleases to be
words that say "ay" as in
Neighbor, and Weigh
or things like caffeine which
Keeps me going
Late into the evening
Long into the night
Unable to sleep
Unable to write

Blank slate to scrawl across
her fingers dusty with chalk
as she transcribes the
Pictures in her head
into chalk dust
White on Green
Crazy spirals moving out
from her central point
to encompass her universe
Hold her still in the
Center
of it all
Motionless
except for chalk lines
on the cement
where she once lay.