Bored

Bored

By Joe Petrulionis

From the rude snip of the umbilical

to the hideous slurp of the aspirator,

human life a long phase of protracted monotony.

We come prepared by natural selection

designed for struggle, privation, challenge, and loss.

We find our well meaning ancestors devised

processes, procedures, regulations, and risk mitigation, all systems of entrapment, machines of enforcement.

Would have been better to be a jack rabbit.

Then a life of running, hiding, and nibbling at the edges of our predators' gardens

would be not only tolerable, but we might even imagine a kind of purpose in that form of existence.

As it is, we are made for the life of a human and
are instead bent and shaped for something less threatening, unbelievably boring.