Wrapped by Siobhan Dunlop

Congratulations!

You spent over 50,000 minutes

planning scenarios that were never going to happen

and having arguments with the straw men in your mind.

You were a particular fan of the genre

so convinced you're going to drop any breakable item

you barely feel able to touch the good mugs.

Great work on making it to the top 0.5% of fans of

too scared of the love of your life walking next to the curb

and possibly falling into the road.

Here's a message from your favourite artist:

don't forget that at any moment

everyone you love might die.

That's another year of your life gone.

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Siobhan Dunlop (they/them) is a UK-based poet and has published the micro-chapbook Glitching Al Pacino (Ghost City Press, 2022) and the pamphlet Syntax Error (kith books, 2023). They can be found on social media as @fiendfull