So Much Waiting

Nobody told me that there’d be so much

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Please hold

your call is important to us

you are in a queue

you are number 17

all our advisors are busy right now

Take this number

and wait for your turn

to see the doctor

to complain

for your KFC order

Your documents

are in the system being processed

we will be in touch via

email or text or phone or letter

which do you prefer

Your delivery

will be between the hours

of midnight and

February 2025

your driver will text

when they are on their way

Every holiday

bookended by

rush to airport

for your parking slot

wait for the bus

queue here to

check in

queue here for

baggage check-in

queue here for

security

now wait

Red-eyed, exhausted

and trying to hold it together

whilst around you everyone else

is doing the same. Some badly.

Some with kids biting at their heads.

Some way to start a relaxing break.

Some way to end it.

This thing about your life flashing before your eyes when you snuff it – most of it’s going to be fucking boring as shit. Time wasted waiting.

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I’m fucked if I can find any poetry in it.