…we are addicted to distraction, and therefore functioning with multiple stimulants at one time has become accepted and normalized so that it becomes difficult for us to question it. ~ Monique Rhodes

What distracts you?
I sit, intend on reading,
sitting in the room with husband
who reports on the webcams
he flits between. After a while
he turns on the TV
which he mutes as he talks on the phone
and I can talk to him if I tell him to mute first…
but the reading is falling by the wayside
and when I get too distracted I play a game
just “for sanity’s sake.”
So here I sit at 8:30 working on tomorrow’s Dose,
two of my fourteen readings yet unread,
the “morning’s “meditation to come
after the Dose and readings…
I am addicted to distraction,
functioning with multiple stimulants
at one time, a routine that has become
accepted and normalized and
difficult to question it.