From when I was a work-slave. Anyone share this feeling?

Question:Time out of Mind

'Life is for living'
But what does that mean?
Living or existing
There's a difference between.
I get up
Wash and toilet.
Coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out
Drive to work.
Shift paper about.
Drive home.
Have my tea.
Watch the telly.
Then bed
when......
great ideas swim about in my head,
Thoughts hitherto unknown to mankind,
guaranteed to make the whole world blow its mind.
Bursts of enthusiasm,
drive and tenacity
producing startling blue-prints of insight and clarity.
I invent an umbrella that really works
and give advise to the Almighty.
To solve age-old problems of diseases and poverty.
Write poetry that international sages accept
and a Nobel peace-winning novel (of breath-taking depth)
Then I get up.
Wash and toilet.
Coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out
Drive to work........

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Time out of Mind

'Life is for living'
But what does that mean?
Living or existing
There's a difference between.
I get up
Wash and toilet.
Coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out
Drive to work.
Shift paper about.
Drive home.
Have my tea.
Watch the telly.
Then bed
when......
great ideas swim about in my head,
Thoughts hitherto unknown to mankind,
guaranteed to make the whole world blow its mind.
Bursts of enthusiasm,
drive and tenacity
producing startling blue-prints of insight and clarity.
I invent an umbrella that really works
and give advise to the Almighty.
To solve age-old problems of diseases and poverty.
Write poetry that international sages accept
and a Nobel peace-winning novel (of breath-taking depth)
Then I get up.
Wash and toilet.
Coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out
Drive to work........

I know the feeling very well.
Not so much now my days are astrays.

I have read your poem over and over.
One more time before I answer.
No I am not sure yet.
Gotta go Back later.

Delightful, put a smile on my face. Loved the seemingly mundane line: "Wash and toilet", not something I hear said in the Midwest!

Edit: I would say "thoughts hitherto unknown to mankind"

Share the feeling of wishing our lives were just a little less mundane? You bet. I feel this way all the time. I think we all have these momentary burst of inspiration in which we feel like we can right all the wrongs...make good all the bad...then come back to the real world. This is another wonderful thought provoking poem. You really want us to think this morning.

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My New Job
by TD Euwaite

I had a dream where I was part
Of the Pop Machine
Not the bits where money goes
Or polished nice and clean

I am where the work is done
With cans of every kind
I simply do dispense the things
So brightly advertised

Ta Dah!

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I share, did share and don't anymore!

The list, so like my own; the dream, so like all our own.

This is a nice piece, I liked how you switched forms between the real (and mundane) and the dream, the fantastic.