Frog Soup
March 7 2022
Gradually, then suddenly
Hemingway wrote;
as usual
no wasted words.
Not just bankruptcy, but most things in life,
yet we're always surprised.
What just happened
and is this even possible?
Why now
so out of the blue,
and did I do something wrong
why me, not you?
No reason, no fault.
Shit happens,
and no one decreed
that you should have been warned
received a formal invitation
given a chance to rehearse.
Like the frog in water
slowly brought to a boil
you don't notice, at first.
Until the tipping point
of no return
and you're suddenly frog soup.
To presume
that things will stay as the are
comes naturally to us.
But uncertainty is the rule;
everything either changes, or dies,
and there's never a convenient time
for it to start.
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