A Comedy of the Absurd

Suppose a man awakens

some anonymous morning

and finds the world has slipped

into one of those off-off Broadway plays

where nothing makes sense

and everyone speaks

in melodramatic non sequiturs.

At first, he is confused

by what he sees,

it is as if the world has been

turned upside down and sideways.

He begins to fear he is losing his mind

and soon they will come

to lock him away.

But as the day goes by

and he becomes acclimated

to the rhythm of this strange,

Kafkaesque universe

he realizes that this is the way

the world has always been

and it is he who has been

out of step all this time.

Published in Poem, November 2009