Last minute answers,

as in four hours before the deadline

“oh crap

this essay sucks

let’s just start over and be done”

last minute answers.

 

Add on top

the twelfth cup of tea that day,

or should that be mug?

Probably still an understatement

and each cup

requires an entirely fresh pot.

 

And the essay itself

is less than old!

Since Castleville, Zynga.

farming, building, collecting

searching for that last pine cone-

Well it takes work.

 

Addictions take time,

you’ve got to keep them in check

make sure

that each one is seen to

gratified

and in the end

confined to ink.