Finding a lost manual amidst all the mess

Gives you shivers until it's found ... a test

On all the faculties you have in reserve

Until you remember when last it served



And the joy when you finally find the book

Is overpowering ... for now you can cook

Using the printed instructions to accomplish

The things before at which you only guessed



A morning wasted becomes a way to achieve

Things, heretofore, you only found in the eaves

Of your mind ... lost amongst the wild clutter

Which brimmed away with things you uttered



And once found - things are no longer a mystery

Now can be done what's desired, easy as a breeze

So a morning spent searching finally begets fruition

As you settle down to providing yourself with solutions ...



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

12:20pm Sat. Jan. 31, 98