Orderly

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Fulfilling Order

How does one get orderly?  I fear I must confess
the only way to get  there is by first making a mess!
Since I have put this off for years, the fault is all my own.
Procrastinatiion is a fault for which I must atone.

I sort the photos into piles by topics or by years––
photographs of family and landscapes and my peers.
I wish my album stuffing were not in such arrears.
They’ll take a month to organize, or now it so appears.

I locate half-filled albums  and plastic sleeves and pages.
It seems I haven’t filed a single photograph for ages.
I try to be most organized and get them into line,
then fall into reflection of the lives of me and mine.

I have company coming and a meal that I must cook.
I’ll find the table easier to clear if I don’t look,
but oh that slumber party that the boys decided to crash
and all those tame adventures where we thought we were so rash.

Who knew that all this sorting would lead to this great mess?
and yet I am enjoying it.  Who would ever guess
that sorting under pressure would still lead me to this?
Memories of parties, of camp and that first kiss.

Sixty-seven years of life all spread out on my table.
I’ll clear them all by nightfall, then cook if I am able.
Too bad the nearest Colonel Sanders is so far away,
or I would save the cooking for another day.


One “find” in the thousands of photos I have yet to stow away in the headboard filing cabinet of my bed that has been recently cleared of poems was these photos of the night John Kuckleberg and Doug Tedrow raided our slumber party.

PJ’s!!!!!

This was not as racy as it looks. The fellas were there before the shortie pajamas were donned, and by the looks of it, boys danced with boys and girls with girls.  The fish, by the way, were plastic ones from my dad’s den in the next room. There has been some progress since the 7th and 8th grade party. Looks like I’d tiled the floor, my sister Patti and I had painted the walls and she had painted a somewhat strange mural of a man leaning against a cactus to take a siesta. I think this was my junior  year. The ceiling had not yet been installed by my dad and me! It must have been Rita’s birthday as we seem to have been giving her a spank for each year.

The prompt for today was “Orderly”   https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/orderly/

13 thoughts on “Orderly”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ha.. I, too, thought it looked like we had something clutched in our hands. I could only make out something in two of them and it looked like flashbulbs…the old fashioned really big ones. We were playing”Ha!” Do you remember it?

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  2. slmret's avatarslmret

    Oh, my — I can definitely relate to the first photo — an orderly mess of piles to be filed!!! I hope I come across something fun to make it worthwhile!

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  4. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

    It was a 60’s game. Each person reclines with his head on the next person’s stomach in a zig zag pattern as you see in photo. The first person says “Ha!” The second says “Ha, ha!” Each person adds one more “Ha!” and you keep going until everyone is, in concept, roaring with laughter. Actually, it works.

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  8. Unknown's avatarAnonymous

    Wow I can not believe that I would have the cojones to go to a party attended by that many good looking girls; especially at that age. Also how did I talk the most cerebral boy in school to go with me.

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