Plan B

Poem: Plan B

Have a ‘plan B’ or a multitude of them up your sleeve.

Be wise, have lots of sleeves

And… a spare bag up one of those sleeves

 

 

Review: Plan B

That is good advice yes, especially as there is no certainty that having just the one ‘plan B’ is a guaranteed solution for every problem one is faced with on a day-to-day basis.

It’s good to see that the poet doesn’t turn the two plans of an A and a B into a ‘twenty six letter of the alphabet’, manifesto of plans. That would be overwhelming. The idea of having a variety of either/or’s in the form of an A or a B sounds more attainable. Choose your ‘B’ according to what has been presented to you. Fine.

Although I love the idiom of ‘up your sleeve’ That could hinder the well-intended meaning of this helpful advice as having ‘a multitude of them’ and keeping up with them could create more problems perhaps? (unless they’re colour coded?) Would then the delegating of those sleeves to others be a better option, lest the reader of the poem, who chooses to take on this ‘advice’, becomes  ‘octopus- like’ and multi-coloured? I’ll leave it there.

Don’t get me started on ‘spare bag’s’!

A nice idea but, speaking from my own experience, it has the potential of the person who adheres to it, entering a labyrinth that they cannot get out of. It becomes a way of life.

This poem has got me thinking about the everyday things I have organised. Should they be set in stone? Or should there be a degree of flexibility or complete removal of the stones? As always, it’s another story for another time.