Demanding: Material Fatigue

Post-holiday de-shopping,
Having been through
The bargain sale wars,
As return deadlines loom
The decision pressure mounts,

What works?
And what to keep?
Connecting up the electronics,
And seeing
The results;

How to bring practice
To this?
Definitely an occasion
To reflect upon
Impermanence, unsatisfactoryness and not-self,

As none of these contraptions
Will last,
Some will not meet
The inflated expectations,
And in the end, none are me or mine;

Or so I said to myself,
When feeling frustrated
With all the hassles
Of grappling with the
New technologies;

Besides, it’s just
Another set of skills to master
And a good work out
For the brain,
Which has been somewhat underused lately.

Anyhow, I think now
A rest is in order
From this constant patter,
Before resuming consideration of the matter.