Tomato / Tomatoe / Potato / Potatoe
You say / I say
Twenty minutes!
That’s all she allows herself for her daily chores. She sets a timer and as it begins to tick down she works.
Twenty minutes!
She picks up the rug and takes it outside, giving it a good bash or two to get out the ingrained dirt; she empties the trash bin and sweeps the kitchen floor.
Twenty minutes!
As the clock ticks she washes the dishes — until she hears the dial click and a tinny ring.
Twenty minutes!
She downs tools and sits with a good book.
Her friends call her lazy — she calls herself productive.
I was challenged by Jessica's Quill (Medium Writer) to write a drabble of the word 'lazy'.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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