(Pre)occupations

Dimpling the doldrums.
Dropping off at the daydream-
ing office. Rummaging through the memory closet. Sweeping mental cobwebs. Exercising written imagination. Hoping for distant
sunsets and trench-coat weather. Wanting impossibilities
and
other
difficult
illusions.

an idyll to do again

sit back, kick your slippers off, have a huge helping of beach and sunset horizon over a cupful of thoughts...

the onset of spoilage (scrapheap of spoiled serenity)

after a while, you start to steer your mind toward those days when it was fun, when you believed there was nothing to worry about. when your best weapon was your state of mind. when you were free.

after a while of this, you do. inevitably.