"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body".
~Joseph Addison

The more I find to organize,
The more I find to organize!
Everywhere that I look
More clutter meets my eyes.

I search up high,
I search down low,
Knowing I put that in a good place.
Have the thread-no needle though!

Boxes and baskets, bags, too.
Alphabetized files, folders galore.
I have the tools to do it all
But keep getting more and more!

When I think I've found the perfect thing
To store my goodies in,
The bottom falls out, it all scatters,
Making a terrible din.

If I could stop getting more
If I would quit my buying,
I'd have time to organize
With very little trying.

As it is, I search around
In each box and bag I look.
Until I give up with a sigh
To curl up with a favorite book!

Jane Ellen Slone
1-29-08
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