DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION

But she says it’s normal, happens to her all the time…

 

Whenever I sit at my desk

Determined to do this,

I’m certain in five minutes flat

I’ll think I should do that.

 

I pivot to the other task,

And get on with my that.

But then the this I left behind

Insists I’ve lost my mind.

 

Whereupon I switch back again

To tend my nagging this,

But that keeps jumping up and down,

Convinced he’s more profound.

 

All day I pootle back and forth,

My laptop feels quite sloshed.

Is that in this or this in that?

Oh no, it’s gone and crashed!