My birthday sucked: my back got sore.
Got sore: I sat at my desk before my walk.
Desk before my walk: yet again there was too much rain.
Too much rain: what we’ve done and La Nina.
La Nina: the Earth’s axis angles and the Earth spins.
The Earth spins: up came the sun when I’d hardly slept.
Hardly slept: too much chocolate.
Chocolate: marking papers all evening.
All evening: during the day I couldn’t finish.
Couldn’t finish: my web provider had a data breach.
Breach: ages figuring out when I just wanted to share a poem.
Poem: more important and shouldn’t have taken all morning.
Morning: best time to work.
Best time to work: nobody calls.
Nobody calls: my kids and most of my friends are asleep.
Asleep: my old timezone so far away.
So far away: too much pink on the map.
The map: what we’ve done.
What we’ve done: my birthday sucked.
First published in Turbine | Kapohau December 2024
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