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If I Only Had a Simple Mind

A Poem

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If I only had a simple mind maybe I wouldn’t worry so much or calculate percentages on the fly just to see how likely something is to happen to me

If my mind would just stop and sit with itself when I am walking instead of listening to a podcast and simultaneously extrapolating every possibility in my life

I feel calm I look calm but my mind is not calm nor is it simple It can’t just take the sun for the sun it thinks too much about why it can’t be simple

Simple, not in a bad way or meaning a slower mind but a mind unbothered A mind free of the shrapnel propelled by this sinking ship that is our universe But that’s my mind talking because this universe is also beautiful But my mind thinks about how it’s all going to end instead of how it is currently shining on me

If I only had a simple mind maybe I would get more work done instead of doing busywork to placate the monster in my head who does not want me to do Deep Work It wants me to worry about him about her but never about myself because I am only the conduit for its plan

Make me think so much that eventually my mind will atrophy and crumble into a wrinkled dress shirt in the corner of a room that no one has the energy to ever pick up again

© Jonathan Greene 2019

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