Is it "poetry" after a "Happy" Hour?!1 Work in progress, alternative words in parentheses:

[UTUSN]

Belay my demise
for tomorrow, for the ‘morrow, for forever -
I’ve got things to do -
errands, pastimes, lazing around -
anything to put things off (anything to put it all off) (anything to put it off)

Belay my demise

Who’m I talking to –
God, a fellow human,
anybody else who doesn’t listen?

Belay my demise

[UTUSN]

1. Another, separate strain

Salad in a soup bowl

Pastry to avoid the goo -

A spoon

[UTUSN]

2. Or am I I, the Great Non-Listener?

[hedda_foil]

3. I love it!!! It's a jazz poem.

I wish you'd keep all three alternatives just as they are. Together they create an irresistible backbeat, murmuring of our inborn longing to put off the inevitable end.

I love it!

[UTUSN]

4. Omz, what a kind reaction, thanks so much!