A Well-Organized Man

 Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is “nick of time.” This week’s contribution comes from the pen of Phil Yeats. 

In April 2024, Phil published The Body on Karli’s Beach, the third book in his Barrettsport Mysteries, a series of soft-boiled mysteries set in a fictional South Shore Nova Scotia town. For information about these books and The Road to Environmental Armageddon, his trilogy about the hazards of ignoring human-induced climate change, visit his website: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com/. His latest book, a novella titled Starting Over Again: A Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy, was published a month ago.

 

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A Well-Organized Man

by Phil Yeats

 

If you peeked through his house windows,

or glanced at his desk where he works,

the clutter would suggest Nicholas B. Mellow

was a most disorganized fellow.

But when he needed anything in the mess,

he always found it in a trice.

 

And if there was somewhere he needed to be,

or an appointment he had to keep,

he’d leave without checking a clock.

He’d window-shop along the way

or sit in a park to admire the view.

And sketch a flower in his notebook.

 

It didn’t matter how many distractions he found

as he ambled along.

The man without a watch

always arrived in the nick of time.

 

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The Spot Writers:

Val Muller: http://www.valmuller.com/blog/

Catherine A. MacKenzie: https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/

Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com/

Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.com/