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Opposite Day

A humorous take on a strange morning

By Andrew C McDonaldPublished 3 years ago • Updated 3 years ago • 1 min read
Opposite Day
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My toaster wants to be a microwave

My microwave wants to an oven/range

My dishwasher is dancing a jig and acting truly strange

...

The coffee maker is percolating ice cream

While the freezer spits out hail

And I'm pretty sure my lettuce just morphed into kale

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While my dog is using the litterbox

My cat just darted past, a mouse in hot pursuit

By the way, my chihuahua is looking quite hirsute

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My daughter wants to play football

While my son is taking ballet

The last would be fine if he wasn't pirouetting on a sleigh

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I fix a cup of hot ice cream

Sweetened by stirring in some fudge

Wondering if my dryer is holding on me a grudge

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My dryer sheets are floating in the wind

My socks are linty, my whites flourescent pink

I hope the alcohol is still beneath the sink

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My wife told me it was going to be opposite day

And to expect things to be weird

Still this is all something, I think, to be feared

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I stumble back to the bedroom

Now a closet strewn with hangers

I crawl beneath hanging clothes to find a couple strangers

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I offered them hot fudge coffee

Which they took with polite thanks

Before stabbing each other with dull prison shanks

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Now the cops are here

My house a bloody crime scene

No more opposite day, this is all quite obscene

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About the Creator

Andrew C McDonald

Andrew McDonald was a 911 dispatcher for 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.

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    Written by Andrew C McDonald