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Carpe Diem

by crowspark 

Posted: 16 May 2021
Word Count: 131
Summary: For Oonah's challenge


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I got up early
to seize the day
but the cat was sick
and I slipped.
What's needed is a plan!
No more half-baked
intentions, no more grasping
for witty inventions.
I'll learn a new language
something obscure
practice my lettering
buy a tattoo parlour,
tattoo gun, lots of ink,
write my opus magnum
bit by bit
on arms and buttocks
shoulders and thighs
I'll spread the word
with secret sigils
in hiding or
on open display.
I'll need a database
to tabulate the names
addresses ages
orientation and occupation
record them in sequences
to each a number
their place in this
great work, their place in
literary history
bookmarked
and when read in order...
I got up early
to seize the day
but the cat was sick
and I slipped.






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V`yonne at 12:24 on 16 May 2021  Report this post

write my opus magnum
bit by bit
on arms and buttocks
shoulders and thighs

made me laugh out loud laugh and that takes a bit of doing these days! I also love the way it fizzles out at

and when read in order...

and the cat sick takes over. Such is life! I feel very much as if the cat sick has won, Bill but at least you made me laugh about it.

michwo at 12:47 on 16 May 2021  Report this post
I can't help feeling that the presentation of this is a bit monolithic, Bill.  Would stanzas of a sort make it easier to take in?
I'm tempted to say, having just perused the Prologue of "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, be careful what you wish for! On second thoughts maybe an 'opus magnum' or 'magnum opus' IS monolithic by definition. Strange stuff.

crowspark at 13:43 on 16 May 2021  Report this post
Thanks Oonah, story of my writing life lol.
 

crowspark at 13:46 on 16 May 2021  Report this post
Hi Michael, yes opus magnum rather than magnum opus - a monolithic piece of work instead of a great piece of work!
I deliberately took out the stanzas to better fit the general air of vain struggle :)


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