i ate dinner for lunch
breakfast for dinner
and to make it more confusing
no breakfast at all
i turned left instead of right
then right, until
i was good and truly lost
but okay with not being found
i sang the words all wrong
to a radio song
wrote a poem that did not rhyme
except perhaps these last four lines
i hoped for rain when it was sunny
forgot my sunglasses on a walk
watched the news then wished i had not
answered the phone and wished the same
i hemmed when i should have hawed
went to instead of fro
but tried to make my topsy turvy day
a turvy topsy one
i switched wonky for the fantastical
and even stood on my head
to turn an upside-down smile
right-side up again
*from the files of very bad poetry by bia
"Laughing Sally" can be found in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas
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