from the poetry book ‘Images of Life’
My Daily Alphabet Soup: A poem by E.T. Milligan
I wrote this poem one day when I wondered if I could combine the humorous elements of the alphabet and use it to take a person through the hustle and bustle of the working world.
My Daily Alphabet Soup
Alarm clock’s sounding, wakes me at eight
Breakfast I’ll miss and boy am I late
Carpoolers call, from their cellular phone
Dead phone, and they’re long gone
Eggmuffin’s soggy, colder than ice
Fried ham’s a mold, even fried rice
Gotta get to work quickly, to clean up the trash
Heinecken bottles, from the night’s beer bash
Inside there’s trash clogging my space
Janitors with push brooms in my face
Kidney’s stone howling, Pepto’s my pop
Lamenting sadly, as stockprices drop
Metal’s now bearish, like my crypto last week
Nuggets gone crashing, the whole market’s weak
Out for lunch, at half past one
Pounding down tacos, indigestion’s no fun
Quick to the closet, for an afternoon snooze
Rally’s not coming, but nothing to lose
Scurried out the building, just missed the train
Ten minutes for a taxi, in pouring down rain
Under the boardwalk’s, a Hark Rock Café
Vermouth n’ Pretzels, just made my day
Wild bunch a calling, for nightlife to go,
X’d that ideal, for a late night talk show
Yawning quite restless, at half past three
Insomnia’s over,
Zzzzzzzzzz!
Copyright © Edward T. Milligan, 2005
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