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Oh, those contemplation bubbles ...

9/26/2014

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Some time ago, I saw an online image of a coffee mug bearing a brilliant slogan: "Please do not annoy the writer.  She may put you in her book and kill you."  This mug soon went viral.  Of course it did.

As any writer will tell you, being interrupted while obviously deep in thought goes well beyond "annoying."  Even I, an extrovert's extrovert, find these occasional disturbances incredibly irritating.

Sorry ...

In truth, once I have managed to dislodge myself from my quiet, creative bubble, I am ever so happy to see you, but it's rather a large initial shock at first as my mind struggles to refocus ... on you.  

And even while we converse, or I address whatever it was that you interrupted me about, those ideas and phrases that had enveloped my entire sphere continue to spin at the very edges of you and I.

Replying, "Yes, I'd love more coffee," is enough to confound my thought processes for at least the next several minutes, and it is why I am ever in search of some far corner in a less than popular cafe.

My husband is keenly aware of my quirk.  When he sees me staring fixedly into nothing at all, he softly asks, "Jan ... are you writing a poem?"  I'll reply, "...uh huh ..."  If he can, he'll let it go at that.

Being a fine artist, himself, he gets it.  But, as I have noted in previous blogs, not everyone does, which is why I applaud the slogan on that mug.  It's humorous,  it's succinct, and 

... it's probably true.       


      

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    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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