Unhinged

In each city
in every country
in all the world
there’s
a
shitty advert for doors

What are they thinking?
that a man has nothing better to do
than to replace
banal blocks to pass through

“ALL YOUR DOOR NEEDS SATISFIED!”
the billboard declares

and I see a chump
slow his bicycle
to gaze and stare

my heart sinks at the sight
of such depressing
balloon
typography

Who’d have guessed?
that when the slime grew those legs
and learned to talk
that when Darwin scratched his chin
and Achilles fought
the glorious open plain
of what we humans taught
would lead us
to such
relief

and we could sleep safe
in the belief
that all our door
needs
would be
well and truly
satisfied