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Carlo C Gomez
Poems
Sep 2022
The Bystander
~
Weather balloon for a hat
propeller on his back
morning is observably alive
leaving it to atmospheric pressure
he consumes today's newspaper
with the enthusiasm of a bowl
of Corn Flakes
this Heath Robinson contraption
of getting to work first
over enemy lines
is all the rage in his satirical
state of mind
that is until the absurd derailment
of wartime employment
and so he returns home with tubes
and catheters attached to his body
and feeling like one
of the unwieldy machines
he had so often created
full of atmospheric pressure
and apparently thinking it
an undignified fate
he pulls out the tubes
and quietly dies
of his own invention
~
#inventor
#machines
#irony
#spectator
#employment
#war
#depression
Written by
Carlo C Gomez
54/M/The Exclusion Zone
(54/M/The Exclusion Zone)
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