How to fall apart gracefully

How to fall apart gracefully
Drinking wine
Waking with an aching head
Not embarrassingly
How to fix a broken clock
Arriving late

All the cars known to man
Shaped like
Cracked egg like
All the baked goods known to man
Learning to be more like a swamp
Less like a bucket

Moving at the speed of sound
Or twice that
Can bend the metal
Right off your fender
Built like a train
Trained by a boat
Sailing against the desert landscape
Landscape always wins

Driving prices or
Making things stick
All in a day's day
Like a man's man
Like some ink's ink
Drying perfectly against
the paperscape

Dulling these senses
Baking these loaves
Filling these tanks
Reverting to these
troubling times
Won't look half as bad
as cars
Or business hangovers
Layovers
Egg overs
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