Reminder of Life.

Hear it crack

In the only place it can't

To keep its functioning intact

And roll out it's product

While you wait

To see if it preforms its task

Properly and timely

Like the manual picture.

It's broke,

Like two people paint new eyes

On the lids of the other

Like who's behind is a bother.

I go home

Knowing nothing can be done

'Till the part that was ordered

Arrives in its cardboard borders.

I entered

There you were all asleep

Like some famous photograph

And me visiting its museum

And your weight

And working and bending limbs

A machine rightly functioning

With timing and grace

Which tuned out

The sound of the frantic whips

Demanding faster of the pulse

That moves the ship

So thanks

For this reminder of life

More than gears and steel,

Of breath, inside jokes and strokes

So thanks

For this reminder of life

Which breaks

Or Doesn't

Or Breaks

Or Doesn't.

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