Dull

we’d merely glanced

at one undimmed menu

before deciding on

a meteor shower,

and to wash it down

we had ordered

some fluorescent rain,

but after a few spoonfuls

we’d felt quite full,

for it was more

than what our subdued

lives could contain!

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“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

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