What pulls me to horde <br />Old pencils new pens <br />Newspaper clippings <br />Books magazines and my notes <br /> <br />My home office has <br />Stacks of papers on the floor <br />I have or plan to <br />Go through and organize <br /> <br />The room scares my wife <br />She tries not to look in <br />She knows it'll take a shovel <br />And a dumpster if I die <br /> <br />There are orrginal first drafts <br />Several revisions <br />There's works-in-progress <br />I still have to decide about <br /> <br />She see no progress <br />Only the mess <br />That continues to grow <br />If they're organized it doesn't show <br /> <br />As long as my stuff <br />Does not spill out <br />To the rest of the house <br />We have a truce <br /> <br />Kinda like North and South Korea <br />Kinda like the Jews and Palisatinians <br />I'm glad my window does not face the sea <br />That's where she'd push my stuff and me<br /><br />Tom J. Mariani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/03-26-2010-the-heart-of-a-writer-s-studio/
