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.