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Recorded Reading (1:13): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ex4k5bd0imxfyhcqso0ry/bad-timing.mp3?rlkey=qf673u2pdn1g7v534j8lnz1pq&dl=0

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bad timing

you know?
it’s funny
i mus’ be
missin’ somethin’

cause when i
get in my car
polish my floors
wind up my garden hose

i don’t do it
with a big happy
grin on my face
and my hair perfect

an’ know what else?
when i go to the gym
the sewing machine shop
my dry cleaner

i never seem to get there
when those widely
smiling people in
all my ads do either

even the fancy hotels
seem to be filled,
when i arrive, anyway,
with

harried businessmen
weary drivers
whining kids
and exhausted mothers

plus
harassed and harried
staff

my car tools aren’t ever handed
to me by scantily clad
buxom suggestively
smiling women…

i must have some
really
really bad timing

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