GENTLY REINVENTED INTO SOMETHING USEFUL

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"GENTLY" RE-INVENTED INTO SOMETHING "USEFUL"

I have the alarming habit
of "gently" re-inventing
whatever comes my way
into something I deem more "useful."
It is especially embarrassing
when I'm in scavenger mode
and appropriate something
that doesn't really belong to me, yet,
and grab it up for the reinvention.
This happens, disarmingly, in stores,
by the side of the road, and now, horrifyingly,
in the home of my in-laws, my husband's childhood home..
I can usually be seen whacking away at something
from my dangerous wheeled perch in the kitchen,
scraps of snipped-away stuff flying in all directions
to the amazement of the cats and humans in my path.
The problem with this gentle uncontrollable mania
is that the item deemed in need of re-invention was formerly
something someone else had a place for
in life before my whacking.
This not-so-subtle attempt at
arts and crafts IS my only known craft;
perhaps that's why they all
let me write poetry. At least their
stuff remains safe that way!