I PAUSED MY GAME TO BE HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley ripped up his lawn
to replace it with artificial turf,
cuts down the ivy that grows on his gazebo
to adorn it with manageable plastic ivy,
he put a plaster cast hedgehog by the door
and an aluminum heron by the pond,
he divorced his wife and replaces her
with a fully-functioning autobot replica
and they sit together in the gazebo
sipping alcohol-free wine, yet there
is a void within still not satisfied,
it’s only when he catches
his own reflection in the glow
of her LED light-bulb eyes
that he knows he has
just one more item
left to replace

 

 

 

Andrew Darlington


By Andrew Darlington

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