Dying On Your Lunch Break

Inconveniencing your boss

Carlo Zeno
Scuzzbucket
Published in
2 min readMay 25, 2023

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Photo by Kajetan Sumila on Unsplash

You died this afternoon.
A nonevent, if there ever was one.
You were somewhere in the middle
of your life, and — poof!
The plug was pulled.

What was funny about the whole thing
is you were in the middle of planning
for retirement.

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Carlo Zeno
Scuzzbucket

Top writer in poetry and satire. Migrant. Expat. INFP. Poet. Satirist. Tragedian. Tutor. Public Servant.