Inventory (new draft)

...CDs, DVDs -
alphabeticised -
on sloping shelves
you were going to fix.

...dust so thick
you could write your name in it.
Now you wish
the books bore names.

...piles of bills, receipts,
the pair of billets-doux
you planned to frame
and hang on the end wall.

...this big mess
flurried by talk,
flowing from the living room
into your head and out. 

...that silt greying
your hair, too far away
from wisdom and too close
for comfort to concern.