{"id":5044,"date":"2024-01-05T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2024-01-05T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:03:52","slug":"poem-opportunity-accost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/05\/poem-opportunity-accost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Opportunity Accost [Number Two]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am an idealist. I see huge swathes of unfulfilled potential. I am confronted with an endless stream of possibilities — how beautiful. I recognize that most of the everyday whirled is ensconced in navigating probabilities — how practical. Still, I am fascinated with possibilities. The nexus of these two realm, possibility and probability, form for me an acute awareness of opportunity costs, the cost of choosing ordinary probability over extraordinary possibilities. I am both taunted and tantalized. Thus, this poem:<\/p>\n

Opportunity Accost<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Know madder
\nWhat we due
\nThere is looming potential
\nWeave effaced
\nHour live long daze
\nHaunted buy passibilities
\nPregnant with awe
\nThat is conceivable
\nA portentous bettor
\nOn corporate shares
\nAnd heavy doody stakes
\nVexing poetic just us
\nPeople verses
\nMirror statistics
\nAnd every moment us
\nVictory for awe
\nSomething more than
\nJust probability<\/p>\n

As it turns out, I already wrote a poem entitled Opportunity Accost<\/em><\/a> years ago; so, I added the [Number Two] to the title of this new poem — shit happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am an idealist. I see huge swathes of unfulfilled potential. I am confronted with an endless stream of possibilities — how beautiful. I recognize that most of the everyday whirled is ensconced in navigating probabilities — how practical. 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