Mr Mascellani's Musings

Hmmm, as a writer who works fulltime as an IT shift-worker,

I don’t have time for dull evenings. Really. Not so long

ago, I was reading an article that said that studies showed

that shift-workers either get enough sleep and lack a social

life or have a life social life and lack sleep, and some lack

both.



And anybody who writes and works full time knows that you

have to find, make, steal the time to write. But the good

thing about being a writer is that even if you are faced

with a dull evening, it can become fodder for your writing.

I would write more about how the dull becomes interesting

under the microscope of observational scrutiny if I wasn’t

certain self-imposed time and word restrictions when it comes

to these writing prompts.



Dolor- Theodore Roethke

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.


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