Behind the Poem: THE ADVANTAGES OF STAYING BUSY

The poem, THE ADVANTAGES OF STAYING BUSY, (Beauty for Ashes, pg 111) was written on November 28, 2005.  This was two days before the end of National Novel Writing Month.  I was wishing it would have extended longer due to my wintertime anxiety.  I enjoyed having something else to focus on for a month, and was nervous about it coming to an end, because it meant I would have to face the emotions I had been hiding.