by Lawrence J. Krips
This morning I tossed an empty toothpaste tube
into the toilet bowl instead of the basket.
Later, the just simmered Marinara sauce
went from the stove into the everything drawer.
You see, the system I relied upon,
has taken an unapproved vacation.
My friends insist dictators will save the world
and that being independent is an unnecessary burden.
My children are beginning to wonder not at the barking
but by the preternatural scratching with my left foot.
By overwhelming minority opinion, The Supreme Court
declared the United States null and void.
The stairs took me up to the basement, while
the dump sink in the attic overflowed to the roof.
The President has ordered all new maps
eponymously rename the Western Hemisphere.
Who knew vaccinations cause fleas or
cameras can substitute as hearing aids?
From now on, men’s votes are the only ones counted
in all the elections we will no longer have.
For as a woman seweth so does a man reapeth,
the oceans tideth and space-time discontinueth.
Nothing does lead to something
and a stitch in mine is yours in time.
I no longer need to study all those tedious details for elections,
the decisions have been and will be made for us.
Do not fear this upheaval. The old normal