29/06/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation
The sign said “out of order”
And I had to agree.
The whole world was.
I definitely was.
I was upside down
And inside out
And back to front
And more than a little skewwhiff.
I was unprepared and overwhelmed
But didn’t really realise
Until I came face to face
With that sign on a vending machine
That summed up my whole existence
And it didn’t pain me at all
That my life could be so encapsulated
By a broken-down drinks machine.
It seemed quite rational
To be confronted as I was
By the illogical being that was me
In such a humdrum manner
As wanting a bottle of soft drink
And being unable to even begin to decide
Because a sign on the front told me
“Out of order” and I was.
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