Watching The Phantom Tollbooth
as a kid
those soupy swampy sucking
Doldrums
were terrifying
but only after years
do I recognize the metaphor-
as an office worker
plagued with apathy
it is my reality
shackled by sameness
drained by drudgery
soothed by stability-
I fear there is no watchdog
Tock
to wake me up
so change
though fearsome
must come from me
happiness no guarantee
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