MALFUNCTION

ROBERT LEE BREWER’S WEDNESDAY POETRY PROMPT.
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wednesday-poetry-prompts-277
For today’s prompt, write a malfunction poem. Yes, I changed today’s originally planned prompt to fit today’s circumstances. Sometimes you just gotta have that kind of flexibility. However, not everyone handles malfunction the same: some roll with the punches, some throw punches, some throw fits, some quit, some try again, and so on. Plus, there’s any number of malfunctions out there: wardrobe malfunctions, mechanical malfunctions, and heck, I think many of my poems suffer a malfunction or three. Let’s get at it.

By John Yeo

 I have just had some very sad news,

My memory has not been too great

of late.

I forget what the Doctor actually said

Somehow I wasn’t in tune.

I had a vision that was too good to lose,

I felt the influence too sad to waste

or replace.

The Nurse took me home, I forget what she said,

I can almost hum the tune.

I got lost last week in our local mews,

It was scary to be alone in that place,

hard to retrace

the steps I took to my familiar homestead.

How did that music resume?

My family made me an offer too good to refuse,

I will go to paradise, a room of my own,

in a nursing home.

With many lovely people with blank friendly faces.

I am sure the tune will come to me soon.

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