System

 

They don’t read the papers

Don’t watch the news,

Everything’s too frightening

Gives them the blues,

They putter in their gardens

Go back and forth to work,

Watch reality TV shows

 Reruns with Captain Kirk,

One day the light switch

Just made a clicking sound,

The gas and the telephone

Dead as leaves on the ground,

No lights on at MacDonald’s

The ATM was trashed,

Told by someone scurrying by,

The system had just crashed.

System! What system?

Nobody told us about a system!

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

 

 

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