Too Many Tabs Open

Cherry

By Jane Hyphen

Tue, 19 Mar 2024
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I’ve got too many tabs open

in my head.

Even at night I don’t close them just in case

they disappear forever.

A classmate I admired, the name of a rare tree,

a type of tea

to help me calm down, focus, I should specialise.

There’s still time 

for me to become a pilot, a mountain ranger and

a private detective 

because I just always just know things in my gut.

Tomorrow I’ll make

high protein three ingredient yoghurt cake.

It needed sugar.

There’s a yellow salamander dumped by the clothes bank,

it’s on Facebook

I should be richer now, than those dull people

who sell insurance.

The government must be doing something massive

behind the scenes!

I could be a highly successful financial trader if only

I wasn’t distracted.

There’s something about it that just doesn’t add up…

That isn’t Kate.

My ancestors were super wealthy aristocrats and bizarrely I

quite like that.

All I see are double standards, some animals are more

equal than others.

They only care about their personal interests and protecting

the ultra wealthy.

I could get another of those jumpsuits in another colour because it’s 

a complete outfit.

My beautiful dog is getting old, I really need to live

in the moment.

Well there’s really no point starting anything if we’re going to be

invaded by aliens.

I’ll move to Scotland, go off grid, eat moss, my liver will be as pure

as a reindeers.

 

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Submitted by celticman on

sorry Scotland is full. It has been for a while. One-out-one-in policy. If you're English you only count as a tenth of person. Nothing personal. Just allowing for Thatcherism, stealing our oil and Brexit (to name the most recent). I'm actually Irish. I'm being deported even as we don't speak. 

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

You've got 181 people per square mile and England has 1124 so you're empty and this government are making Maggie look prettier by the day. Anyway I'm Welsh, it said so on my DNA kit. Trump hails from your neck of the woods, 'Make Lewis great again'.

Thanks for the cherries x

 

Submitted by celticman on

the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add  your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges, which as you know are in their trillions. 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Please continue this argument as it's very entertaining! I also love the poem btw - you and me both Jane - way too many tabs open, but not sure Scotland is the answer : ) (runs and hides from Jack)

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

laughHa ha, no doubt I'll have just as many tabs open in Scotland and I'll be inhaling thousands of midges too. I've never actually been to Scotland but I would love to visit. I know it's been very popular with Germans over the decades. (runs and hides...)

 

Submitted by Kris on

The wide view, condensed, into a poem with a rhythm, wit, clarity & just plane coolenlightened....

Umm....The high protein three ingredient yoghurt cake.... I dont need sugar with that... just some fresh berries & a bit of honey.... Just say'n cause its one of my all time favorites*......blush 

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

I didn't intend to write this poem but I had so many tabs open both in my head and on my laptop but thank you for your comment. The yoghurt cake is so easy to make but I think my brain was expecting more sweetness. The fruit and honey is a good tipsmiley.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

So glad I had the sense to come up here in time :0) Not sure ANYTHING eats moss, though? But apparently mad foodies are triple boiling lichen. Really like your poem :0) Particularly

"Well there’s really no point starting anything if we’re going to be

invaded by aliens."

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Triple boiling lichen, they would wouldn't they, along with decontructing lasagne (a trend that probably started when they dropped one). Thanks for reading, Di. I really need to discipline myself to just a few tabs.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Don't! I think it essential for your genius!

 

Submitted by marandina on

"All I see are double standards, some animals are more

equal than others..."

Always good to see Orwell quoted.

Yep, the online world can really get inside your head if you let it. You have painted a picture of chaos adriotly. Maybe we should all move to Scotland and eat moss. My liver likes that idea too :)

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thanks for reading, Paul. I'm so lucky to have a bit of outdoor space. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to live somewhere very urban, you can excape into the cyber world but then you cannot earth yourself. When I lived in Brum, I had Sutton Park. I think many of us are getting over stimulated.