More Than You Can Shake a Stick at

I haven’t really stopped since moving from full-time employment to full-time freelance. There’s a huge amount of work for me to do – more than you can shake a stick at – and so I decided to write a poem.

 

Sometimes you have to ask yourself,

“Why the hell did I agree to this?”

Life is more about the yesses

than the nos of course

but sometimes a yes

can land you

in some trouble.

You take on

more than you should take on

and your schedule of work

starts to look more like

the long road

we all must

walk along.

And then the time

you thought you’d save

just rushes to the grave

in desperation,

like a clock

when the hands

start to shake

a bit.

Oh I know

I get a lot done

when I put my mind to it,

but I can’t switch off

when someone’s watching.

They’re waiting for me

to fall over.

Basically,

I need to write

a novel;

one every six weeks

should do the trick.

Or at least

its nearest equivalent

in scripts, blogs

and whitepapers.