my Rico cluster

I’ve just been reading lifehack.org and learnt about something called Rico clusters. It’s an interesting way of ‘mindmapping’ and seeing as I’m strapped for ideas in the poetry sphere, I decided to do one on my life in the hope that it inspires me to write something, anything! It didn’t really inspire any ideas that I can make a poem out of but I do think I might benefit by showing my psychologist next week at my regular therapy session.

I wish I could show yout my Rico cluster, but I don’t have a scanner otherwise I’d happily scan it up so you could see. It’s quite revealing - according to it I’m obsessed with (surprise, surprise) writing, love and its relatives, and things to do with the senses - in particular sense of hearing and smell and what these can do to relax me. Sickness featured but I don’t think it was anywhere near as dominant as my concerns on writing and love.

Anyway, I recommend you try it out, it’s pretty interesting. My first word was ‘writing’ and my last word was ’self-harm’.