Distraction Essay: A Prose Poem

I want to write but I am too distracted so I wrote this.

“Music distracts us” is what my pupil had to read, over and over. We were practising our pronunciation of ‘distract’ in an article he was reading about music and exercise. I teach online in broken timetables and split shifts to wonderful students and I love it.

distract

distract

distract

distract

music helps us exercise. why.

because it distracts us. from what.

Once the lesson ends, I have planned to write for an hour until the next one starts. This is part of the split-up timeline that I get to have on a weekday. But my executive dysfunction is peaking.

I want to write my masterpiece today. I want to communicate the threads in my head in a clear, concise manner befitting of a work-in-progress. I want to complete it and send it off and have it live somewhere other than right in front of me and in my head. I want to write the thing that will earn me enough to enable my husband to quit his job and stay-at-home to take care of the home and me in it, writing my next masterpiece.

answer in a fuuuullllll sentence (I stretch out my hands to show how long I want the sentence to be).

“I listen to…” my pupil begins. We discuss music, we discuss exercise. Opinions are expressed in a clear manner with a great use of stress and intonation on a word and…