I went to the Co for shopping
Their food box got my brain popping.
It was a huge puzzle
great fuss and much fuzzle
to save my wrist from a chopping!
Of a cause still not known,
if tomorrow my eyes have not shown,
you will hear this ballad at your table.
I have long since been tightening the cable,
wrapping it around my neck like a dog,
my hands raised to the heavens, begging god.
For I am but a slave to thought,
thinking of all the horror I've brought,
They claim its hallucination but I know what I see.
Inconvenience when they know where to be,
a stone in the flow of all's life,
a fool who could not fathom their strife.
To & Dear those who are reading,
my heart is in my throat, sweat beading
as I write what I know may be my last words
I apologise if it feels like Arthur had multiple swords.
My final draft in seconds, my mind apart,
I beg you to abandon my bleeding heart.
Curiousity kill
A cat's neighbor, unmindful
Delight brought him back.
I got to listen
To your plea, raise and complaint
Before I lift feud.
I'm so tired but free
Mind says walk further a mile
Body says stay.
Your life's not my fault
My life is not your business
Nothing frills to chills.
A little inconvenience now,
Pays dividends in the end,
On that you can depend,
Along with an increasing chance for a longer existence.
A little inconvenience now,
Will open a window,
Though which friendships can grow,
Precluding a later lonely and sad existence.
I am chewing some tummy tablets
Because I have felt physically sick
For about forty minutes
I am glad to work in a school
Where there is a nurse
She has access to the things I needed
I asked her if she had anything
And she set me up
I am hoping to finish out the day
Because I have plans after work
And I do not want to cancel them.
Being sick is such an inconvenience!
The payment centers
often say that they're offline,
causing annoyance.
It's raindrops on my glasses
A bump in the sidewalk while riding my bike
A postcard not received and a letter never sent
It is an ignored text message and a call from an unknown caller
Closed roads when you are supposed to be home
Melted snow when you just put your gloves on
It is your favorite CD, scratched
A burned out wick and a dried up rose
It is a rainstorm at the beach
A sunny day when you are ill
All of these describe how I feel when I see you
It is just a beautiful inconvenience
An Inconvenience
It’s funny I thought,
How we seem fraught,
When someone needs a hand.
It tars the brush,
And makes us hush,
When they seek future hellos.
For once we’ve stepped in,
We hid from our kin,
When they reach out to us.
Such a shame you see,
Well the joke is on me,
As cake was in the offering.
But now my mind is made,
My time will be saved,
By such and inconvenience!
INCONVENIENCE
Home :
Take one cube of gravy essence,
stir it fretfully, if I still dare,
into boiling, or at least hot-ish water;
such senior movements made with care
Care Home :
Drizzle ointments, yea, and potions
onto wrinkled tangerine skin
of arthritic hands, hips, knee-bones,
prey to crocked aches, and pains within
Hospital :
Please do ignore me gaily, while I toy
with food, well, pap, served up each day;
don’t tie me into bed, I’m already tied to head.
I pray, sometime soon that I’ll be on my way
Thereafter :
Finally to discard this worn-out old suit
trade incontinence for what seems the same,
but with new ability : to bawl up a storm,
and minor inconvenience - this fancy new name
Alan McAlpine Douglas
(Challenge words : cube gravy fret with drizzle tangerine prey arthritic toy tie)
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