this "thing"

this "thing"

A Poem by D. Mansfield
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lif Please keep I'm mind this is fiction

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This “thing,” that is happening around me,

It has become a blanket, both wet and dry.

It neither warms me, nor comforts me,

As if, I've left me here to die.


Small things, upset me now,

In a way never before.

Noise my refrigerator makes,

No longer, ranks in the top four.


People have started looking more often,

Is this a carnival tent?

The time our moon spends, making it around the earth

Is now different, because it is bent.


Twenty four hours a day, a full onslaught,

Of this new audio mayhem.

Vibration and sound, noise of every type,

Someone must have made them.


Now, no more than a light touch.

Seems to be growing, all the time.

Distance now, is what I seek

good tequila with lime.


There won't be any coconut huts,

To eat on this island, you'll need a spear

Pure madness is now upon me,

that is what I fear.

© 2025 D. Mansfield


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