Just Excuse the Clutter
When a mind is brimming over with new ideas, there's not much time
To straighten up the clutter that is the result, and everyone else calls it a crime.
If your hands are busier than your brain, then you can't understand
About this whole other world we inhabit in another land.
We spend as much time projecting as we do inspecting,
And we projectors are the only ones who understand and are respectful.
I'm so glad the world's greatest minds didn't spend all their time
Sweeping and cleaning their work place. We would still be behind.
If you've ever noticed, only those with this problem can understand
This scenario. They see beyond the clutter to their ultimate plan.
I've never heard of an inventor or writer or poet who had a clean desk.
How would they ever find what they were doing? That would be the real test.
Lucile I. Burke
January 27, 2000
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