Poem: One of those days

By Jack Brummet

It was one of those days
Where the darkside Jiminy Cricket

Kept landing on my shoulders
To whisper redrum redrum...

You don't have to take that.
It was one of those days

Where my smile felt like a rictus
and I lied every time someone asked

How are you?
It was one of those days

I'd rather have skipped
But I trudged on

Dragging my wooden leg
Behind me.

It was one of those days
Where I wouldn't have been shocked

To have a Buddhist tell me
Don't get mad; get even.
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