Friday, 13 September 2024

Pinballed

pinging around like a pinball

in a machine

not of my directing

though of my making


too many conflicting bumpers

accelerating me this way and that

my hands tense on the flippers

but rarely do I get the chance to use them

and sometimes when I try I miss

and the ball goes down the hole

out of the conscious world


then a second later something - me?

pings it back into the game

and it all starts again.

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