Time Management

Everyone’s writing but me;

they eat with laptops open on restaurant tables,

occupy all the park benches,

cranking out something –       

              novels?       

              short stories?       

              maybe letters to the editor?

I don’t know. 

What I do know is it’s my commitment to write

and I have to admit it hasn’t been easy because

when it comes to writing

my life always becomes busy… 

Right now

I realize that girl over there who can eat dinner and type simultaneously

is making me look bad –

my laptop sleeps in my backpack,

and here I am writing short poems on ruled paper

because forty-five minutes just doesn’t

seem time worth booting it up. 

What kind of writer am I?