(A prompt for a Saturday Stream-of-Consciousness write – which I restrict myself to doing in 10-minutes – this week the prompt was ‘if’).
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If I manage
to write something
of worth here
I shall be mightily surprised.
And, before we get too far into this,
I am writing prose
in a poetry-looking format –
well, it has to be done.
Anyway,
if I ‘do’ manage
to create ‘War and Peace’
in the ten minutes
that I have allowed myself for this,
no one will be surprised.
Sorry, it should have read,
‘no one will be more surprised than me’,
but it didn’t – if you can follow that.
So, if a picture paints a large number of words
(In the vicinity of a thousand)
why can’t I paint?
If a rhetorical question
gains no answers,
why ask it in the first place?
If I knew all of the questions to some of the answers …
Ha! If!
No, seriously for a second –
why is it that E=MC squared?
Remember, you only have a second to answer that.
If you take too long
you lose a point.
If you answer with time to spare,
well, here is a chest
to pin a badge upon.
If this goes on too long
please let me know,
before I write copious amounts
of drivel
and waste everybody’s time.
Well, obviously, not ‘everybody’s’
that would be slightly over-stating
the dozen or so people
that irregularly read
(or claim to read)
what I do write.
If all (nearly) 8 billion people
read my words
(which they don’t)
and even one percent commented,
that would mean my taking
the rest of my life answering.
BTW ‘if’ is the centre part of ‘life’
that was one of those ‘Squirrel’ moments –
I get them from time to time.
Is it almost over?*
As if!
*the 10-minute alarm went off here – how appropriate. G:)
Graeme Sandford 