I Ate a Piece of Toast and Other Tall Tales
Attempting imagery after googling it once
This was supposed to be the blurb
But it's becoming the poem
My measure of success
Is getting it right, with minimal effort
Because when I try
And no one notices
I get a bit...
I don't know, maybe
Splaying and unsplaying my fingers
Like I've been working on my trigger work
I get a bit coiled and my expectations
Don't get met
Perhaps because I've freeflowed
To success quite a few times
So I expect effort to work
Like wall building
Where every brick
Gets a bigger wall
That didn't work - my knowledge on walls is sparse
But perhaps it's like blowing soap bubbles
Slow and steady
Can often result in your eyes stinging
Because you thought you saw success
On a wand, that wasn't magic
But all the variables
Of a random world
Existed
In your tiny experiment
I remember
When I spent a lot of time
Perfecting spit bubbles
I just checked and I don't appear
To have retained the skill
But I don't recall what the measure of
Success was either
Trying is also annoying
Because when you stop
You are suddenly unskilled
In a way that winging it wasn't
I'm dressed like a poet today
This variable could go either way
I might get so carried away with velvet
And other textures
That I have nothing to say
(I think I'll do some more research)
Copyright © Di11y Da11y | Year Posted 2023
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