New Year's goals, resolutions. . . (breaking)

FOLLY

Most new year's resolutions fade,
for we will trade
most anything
keep a-wing
of long-held habits--dark, entrenched--
although to quench
them, we apply
the old standby:
our annual resolutions ploy--
a mere decoy.
We'll never change,
just rearrange.

from variations, 1994, PL
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in the silence
hearing resolutions
breaking

from New Year's Project, 2006, PL
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a five-year plan
that changed
every day

from  the late  Dion O'Donnol's
day to day:a haiku year, 2002
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