A Numbers Game - The Birthday Sessions



I'll be miscommunicated if I don't shape up,
I've just added another, fill my cup,
Going in circles with these rounds,
Doubles then triples I'll be on the ground,
I travelled to the takeaway full of action,
We seen some characters on lines looking like fractions.

In addition,
I said f*ck politics it's all just division,
We had good times around the table when our group multiplied,
Plus I couldn't do the math as I was on a drunken ride.
I'm pretty gone but still on point like decimals,
Dot to dots are prevalent when you hear my deadly decibels.

What's your number?
Well for 1, I'm 02 much of a 3 man 4 that,
I'm not a prisoner but can't give a high 5 or send gifs in the gaff.
666 is the number of the beast,
They said 7, 8, 9 there wasn't quite 10 of us but we had a feast.

I have papers in my wallet, but will have to pay by card,
Because I'm contactless,
A lonely bird in the yard,
And now I'll contact less,
Feeling mucky like a mess.
So tired I'm feeling mobile,
Not making moves, not at my best.

A letter arrived this morning, but now I can't post my lines,
My face feels like an empty book, feeling like I've been Zucked, not feeling fine,
You'll be getting ghosted my chat has been snapped,
I used to instantly be getting a gram, now I've been turned off feeling tapped,
I didn't even clock on until I got up the road,
I need to watch what I'm doing, it's a sign of the times in this digital mode.

Don't be alarmed that I've missed the writing group,
I'll be marching to long term conditions, right in like a troop,
I detest politicians, now I've got no al-gor-ithms,
Causing glitches in the matrix, my code is anarchism,
Brilliant and beautiful binary, this bizzare bastard isn't a zero,
I'm the one, a super man a bit of a hero.

It was a hell of a night,
Tomorrow feels like a snake bite,
But at the end of the day,
You haven't lost the phone,
You'll find that it's at Jay's.

About this poem

Basically a long winded way of saying I got wasted on my birthday and thought I'd lost my phone but had left it at a mates.

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Written on November 25, 2021

Submitted by Bryan_McLarry on December 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABXCX CCDDEE XXXFF GBGHHXX XXIIJJ KKBXLL MMXXX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,931
Words 413
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 5, 7, 6, 6, 5

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