Inside Job, sadly



She had everything buttoned down

Stay at home office work

Vegetarian

Manageable weight loss

Most weeks.

Springer spaniel

Named Benji.

Fresh air walks

Twice daily.

Reading Alice Munro fiction.

Visiting Facebook “friends”.

But really no

Social skills

Or warm actual

Elbow rubbing

Round a table.

Singing unadorned

In some choir.

Playing some basketball

At the Park.

Remember parks

Before COVID?

Yeah me too.
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Written on April 30, 2024

Submitted by dougb.72572 on April 30, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X X X A A X X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 431
Words 95
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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