{"id":281,"date":"2014-12-09T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:12:34","slug":"hoarder-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Hoarder Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hoarder Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n

All these possessions stacked everywhere.<\/p>\n

It is almost more than I can bare.<\/p>\n

There is books, mail, magazines, & junk.<\/p>\n

About ten times more than can fit in a trunk.<\/p>\n

Just narrow pathways to walk around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can\u2019t be real\u201d, I say with a frown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there no room out in back?\u201d<\/p>\n

I take a look, & almost fall flat.<\/p>\n

The entire house is over flowing.<\/p>\n

Even in front & back, it\u2019s growing.<\/p>\n

There are no chairs for visitors to sit.<\/p>\n

They wouldn\u2019t, if they had any wit.<\/p>\n

There is a name for such a disease.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called hoarding, if you please.<\/p>\n

Usually such a person is in great denial.<\/p>\n

I only say that with a covered smile.<\/p>\n

It is a problem almost impossible to deal with.<\/p>\n

People say \u201cwhy put up with it?\u201d You\u2019re a twit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pappy always told me; he never wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t train a dog by killing the goat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think on that as I move on.<\/p>\n

Someday I wish it would all be gone.<\/p>\n

But, things happen in their own time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s God\u2019s time, it\u2019s not mine.<\/p>\n

Other things are going good.<\/p>\n

I have to treat her like I should.<\/p>\n

The answer is somewhere down the line.<\/p>\n

It is only a matter of \u2018God\u2019s\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

——————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2014)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hoarder Blues All these possessions stacked everywhere. It is almost more than I can bare. There is books, mail, magazines, & junk. About ten times more than can fit in a trunk. Just narrow pathways to walk around. \u201cThis can\u2019t be real\u201d, I say with a frown. \u201cIs there no room out in back?\u201d … Continue reading Hoarder Blues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-life-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}