Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #449
Words: maze, wreck, crawl, back, armed, last, trapped, hand, stash, land, chatter, saw
Armed with twenty-four
rolls of toilet paper
to add to his stash,
Joe rushes out to
his car only to discover
it has vanished. There
he stands, back aching,
trapped in Shoprite’s
parking lot. A wreck,
Joe pushes his cart
through a maze of cars,
hoping to be mistaken
about where he left it.
As last, he sits defeated
on a curb, head in hands,
listening to overloaded
shoppers chatter through
their face masks. An ant
lands and crawls across
his shoe. He watches it.
Joe pokes around in his
jacket for his phone.
Last time he saw it,
was on the front seat
of his car.
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