Terrified of telephones and shopping malls and knives

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by Philip Schultz

This morning I'm tired of the same newspapers and arguments.
I'm tired of sticking the same legs into the same pants,
the same hands poking out of the same sleeves, going west
and then east, heating up the same tea, watching the same sun
rise over the same horizon, the same trees shedding the same leaves.
Tired of climbing the same stairs to look out the same window
at the same street, tired of shaking the same hands, opening and
closing the same doors, dreaming the same dreams, saying hello
good morning happy birthday I'm so sorry please forgive me.

In homage to a torn piece of paper I found in some luggage nested into some larger luggage that reads, "I'm sorry, I love you. Please marry me."

And all this bowing in reverence to a light-hearted quip heard on Parks & Recreation:
"Whenever a couple marries, two single people die".