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Work Play Sleep
By Yosh

its different now
I life has changed,
and happier, I am sad
that certain things are no longer a
prior-ity.

and thus, I like to believe
that many, like I, have taken on
the quest of their ability to create response

and realized long before
that certain inalienable rights
were stars
and the meaning of laughter
on a moments time, was the roaming rhyme.

I feel blessed in my luck.
its paid many a bills buck.
both in money
and spirit.

and I ask for a confession
much too young in my regression
I am thinking about ‘work’
and the ring it has to it

have I become a slave to its grind?
and what each means, in its own frame of mind.
I am kind to the fact that

I am not alone.

Stressed, I take on new meaning
in each task/day/movement/moment
to the fact that I am in the flow
work play sleep
work play know

and we conjure moments of distant future
based on the past of our traits, and fates
and trains and plains and automobiles
and road trips and health kicks

in the flow
work play sleep slow.

I’m taking time out
to shout at the sun
and remember of days when I had less
things that I had commited myself to
and all the time in the world to do nothing
and how I truly hated it.

and the society in which is created for us
and that we created for ourselves
gets lost somewhere in young adulthood
and we are thrust into
creating and having a new
one created for us.

I thought of this one day
when I was watching Sportscenter
and wanted to revel in a game
that tomorrow would be a statistic
and desired to share it with someone
who cared as much as I did.

it is easy to open up the skies
and look up, not knowing.

its hard to suspend the animation of thrust,
the conjure of our lives
for that fleeting moment,
enough to see.

Yosh is in his late 20s and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He has published 18 poems from his collection, "Confessions of an 80s Mediachild", in various print and e-magazines. Most of his work focuses on media and the self, including "Headphones Jones", "Sell Fish", "Chip In My Shoulder", "This or That", "Cheescake" and "Doctrine of Compensation". You can write to him at Yoshmail@aol.com
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