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I haven't written about pee in a while…

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Jim Dalling
Jan 08, 2022
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Don’t think about this as a post about pee.

Consider this writing about urgency and relief.

One of decisions.

I made a decision earlier in the week. The quality of this decision, I’ll leave for you to judge.

One morning, I drank coffee.

In fact,

I drank

An extra coffee.

This was one decision. The quality of this decision, I’ll leave for you to judge.

That morning. I didn’t need to rush. There was no need to hurry.

Nor was there time to waste.

I needed to be efficient in order to be able to make it on time for my 9am appointment.

With this in mind

I neglected

The first rule:

Pee before leaving the house.

This was another decision. The quality of this decision I’ll leave for you to judge

It’s a forty five minute walk to my office. 

On this day

It seems I was living

With a thirty minute bladder.

Two thirds of the way to work, the slight rumblings that happened seven minutes sooner changed. Visions of hurricanes past danced in my head. 

It was time to activate all of the internal muscles that I could connect …

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