Caution: Contents under pressure. May spontaneously organise
Your bookshelves by hue, then height, then the year they were penned.
Side effects include: drawers rearranged without warning – surprise!
And cupboards that suddenly follow a system you’ll never comprehend.
Do not expose to half-finished tasks or abandoned affairs;
This quirk feeds on loose ends like flames upon tinder-dry wood.
Will circle back, asking questions, ascending forgotten stairs,
Resurrecting old conversations you thought were dead and gone for good.
May cause excessive tangents when telling the simplest tale,
Each anecdote sprouting branches, roots digging through time.
The destination gets buried beneath historical detail,
As though every story requires its proper footnotes and paradigm.
Keep away from small injustices – even the slightest slight
Observed in shop queues or on buses will fester and grow.
This quirk remembers everything: every rudeness, every slight,
Collecting them like specimens in jars, all carefully arranged in a row.
Warning: Cannot let things rest. Will worry them like a bone,
Turning problems over and over until they’re polished smooth.
Requires answers to questions that most would leave alone,
And silence feels like sandpaper – rough, insistent, uncouth.
Handle with patience. Store in spaces where curiosity won’t cause harm.
Best paired with those who understand that quirks are what we are:
Not flaws to be corrected, but the particular charm
That makes us luminous, peculiar – our own eccentric star.
Bob Lynn | © 2025 Vox Meditantis. All rights reserved.
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