10-31-2017, 06:24 AM
(10-31-2017, 05:40 AM)shemthepenman Wrote: this is interesting. i think i have a high tolerance for self-inflicted boredom. i think it’s called “laziness”. after reading your poem here i asked myself, and google, “why do we get bored?” the answers given were not very interesting, by either respondent. but it did say something about being bored waiting at an airport. how could anyone be bored waiting at an airport? also, why did you use “total anaesthetic” and not “general anaesthetic”?I did (first draft), but it didn't fit the Hiawatha drumbeat and I shied away from "gen'ral" on... err... general principles.
Bored at an airport? Not when one knows what's going on behind the "authorized only" doors, even (especially) late at night. Though watching CNN on the monitors for even a few seconds can induce that state...
hrug: 
Non-practicing atheist