TROUBLEMAKER

You do not miss the trick

The machine gargles and spits

Boring boring bored

Excavating the future paralysed

In its boredom, a biro pen

Clear plastic with blue vein

Like a hundred billion other

Gold tipped river writers

Doing sum, mindlessly

Studying Shakespeare

Stuck up noses with heads

Slammed against the table

But you do not miss the trick

This one pen is one pen is

Limitless in its singularity

You said it as the sleight

And it has taken me

A hundred billion pens

To understand what this means

This one among the many

A Trouble

Maker