Sunday, 22 June 2025

Orange Car Pile-Up and Forest Cricket

I started to add midweek runs
to my fitness routine la la la regime
but that week a series of unfortunates which
my legal rep has urged me not to reveal in this or any forum
led to not led to, cause not cause
a four-car pile-up and oddly all of them
were orange not yellow or gold which
you must agree is uncanny or merely symbolic 

It was an exhausting incident, and
I will ever jog along jong jong
jog along jong jong
a glong glong gong
down down down along along long

Into the
middle
of the
road again

Head held high full of unearned confidence
I went back to work, grids and cells
won't fill themselves

I was assigned to the cricket desk
the new series was played in dense and uneven woods
posing a novel challenge for batter, bowler,
umpire and spectator alike
tree hazards, low light, a muddy wocket
yes we renamed it a wocket I didn't just mistype

In retrospect someone must have known
this was a disastrous experiment, and on
returning to the office from the forest
I found the whole operation had been
wound up and closed down
at some point during the second innings
due to lack of funds and interest

My boss shrugged, said they're all robots out there
or do I mean automatons
anyway it means we're no better
and you won't get paid for this

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