U Turns Of Life Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

I have become an aggregator
A few years ago, but after retirement.Started
As I recall when I went from home in Bandra,
To south Mumbai, I would try to think of
Every other thing to be done, and list it.
It began with one timebound thing
Say file data with CA for IT return
Then why not buy that book in the Strand
Take some passport photographs in the Asiatic
Opposite Churchgae, buy a DVD in Rhythm House,
Give watch for repair, buy pair of missing
Brown socks, and so on.

This leads to forgetting some,
And then to doubt about memory,
Onset of Alzheimers, or fear of Parkinson
Genes from Papa.

Now I am in a 'disaggregating' spiral
Dont want to link up one to the other
But just want to finish one before
Even thinking of another, let alone doing them
In a combined manner.
Every U-turn
Lets me climb up to Ooty hill station.
Soon I know the same succession of U-turns
will also bring me down to the ground, flat
From vertical to horizontal too!