Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Go to the Back of the Line

No breaks – No cuts – No letsies here.

No privileged characters shunning the rules.

We all have to wait, as sad as it seems

To hear, “May I help the next person in line?”

Heaped-upon boredom, shuffling feet,

Side-to-side sashaying plucking at nerves

As the unending tedium wastes precious minutes

That could have been better spent sipping fine aged wine.

It’s one of the prices we pay to be social,

A meager concession learned in youth.

Practical practice, a way to keep order,

Fractional fairness, sensible truth.

Small wonder it evokes such uproar

Any time anyone breaks the design.

All yell in unison steeped with displeasure,

“Go to the back of the line!”

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