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4d
My desk is empty
  I don't like this
  there should be
  papers all over
  here and there
even a tiny piece

a  clean table?
For  that I'd happily miss
there should be
some disorder
to stir my imagination
to challenge my wit-
too much cleanliness
is close to being a disease

Beethoven I'm not
look at his untidy desk
and the room of his
with uncompleted manuscripts :
that was how he worked
and the best mark
he never did miss

let mine be as I like
haphazard, disorderly
unpleasant to look at
yet my very task
shall be completed
in good time
and success my lips
shall gladly kiss
Written by
Dr Peter Lim  M/Victoria, Australia
(M/Victoria, Australia)   
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