Compulsion

Compulsion

...and some persuasion.

I do
you do
he does
she does
we all do
what it is
everyone does
day after day
night after night
sun up
'til sundown
from season to season
nine to five
twenty-four seven
forty-
sixty-
eighty-
one hundred sixty eight
hours a week
through wind and rain
through sun and snow
uphill both ways
head up
head down
nose to the ground
burning the midnight oil
up at the crack of dawn
until the end of time
and whatever other rotten cliché
you can remember.

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In so far as one denies what is,
one is possessed by what is not,
the compulsions, the fantasies,
the terrors that flock to fill the void.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin