the art of dismissal

did you ever notice how dismissal works?

the mind task that functions as dismissal

is its objection, 

that renders as a judgment.

is it other interest as override?

is it a sinking feeling

that now for then, 

attention grabs?

is it sensed as now-structured 

made evident

and then reasoned as a choice?

either a or b?

and b now overwhelms a.

is it a loss of focus,

as a stampede of otherwise images

bent on distraction?

is it a phasing of interest,

where topic just got lost

in the overview?

is it a sense of rejection,

before forming itself into a response?

is it a focus frame 

that just got either so large

or so small,

that that topic at hand 

lost a sense of reference as worthy?

even dismissal is subject to

attention span.

no harm intended,

but just the same.

what was it

that we were doing 

or concerned about? . . .