a day to forget

A day to forget

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It was a rotten day from the start, got up late

feeling as if he had not slept at all and the night had been dreamless

all his phobias leak into his dream, making the day

easier to endure.no point turning on the TV, same old stuff wars

It is easy to stop a war but near impossible to stop

and this war is a conflict about values.

He made a coffee but had no milk, and the toaster didn’t function

ate a banana instead; versatile fruit easy to eat

and not as fattening as slimming prophets say.

They were having lunch at a Scandinavian club it was dark

looked like a den for unhappy escapists, angry people talking

critically about the country they had chosen to live in.

They ate stew at a local café, and a fly landed on his wife’s food

she is a hypochondriac who claimed she had been poisoned

hauled her into the car, which had a parking sticker.

When she felt better after her brush with calamity, he drove

her to a nail bar, while waiting he played the radio

When he started the car, the battery was flat.