I DON'T GIVE A …

I want to paint, I want to read, I want to play.

I can do all three or none at all; I'm home all day.

I want to nap, I want to dream, I want to walk.

I don't want to work, don't want to phone, don't want to talk.

I have no drive to commence what I'd like to do;

I am completely unmotivated; that's true,

So I sit here with coffee in an enormous cup,

Resigned to my lethargy, and prepared to give up,

Knowing I'll never be famous, a star or a starlet,

Self-assuredly I whisper to myself, "Frankly Scarlet …."

© Ron Unruh, January 2015