Unfulfilled Ambitions

You eat a small bag

Of potato chips,

And that’s all you do.

No music’s playing.

No one’s in the room.

No book is open.

No screens are glowing.

You’re just attending

To slowly eating

The potato chips,

Attempting to give

Them full attention,

Although, as soon as

You think of that word,

Attempting, your mind

Wanders off to things

Unattempted yet

In prose or rhyme. Tempt.

Attempt. Temptation.

To handle, test, try.

Autotemptation.

You stop noticing

The potato chips

Long before they’re gone.