agendas

 lists, and avoidance

everybody has lists,

either literal or figurative,

and we rank what we choose to do,

it is easy to deny, to ignore a choice,

why let someone's request of us

galvanize us into action?

we slip into procrastination,

into being daunted by the effort asked for,

so we don't invest precious moments in another's agenda,

we choose to be ruled by the easier path,

I love a cartoon strip which argued

that there is a sixty second rule,

if a job can be done in 60 seconds, do it,

and  the strip concludes with how easy it is to decide

that an action takes 61 seconds,

avoidance then can win over the dealing with it all.

by Henry H. Walker

February 4, ‘26