Random Acts of Poetry

Overload

There’s something wrong with my brain, you see,
that makes words pile up by twos and threes
like one of those traffic graphs on a highway
everyone’s in a hurry, all going my way,
but somehow they get all buffer to buffer
and the third in line is the one that suffers
so instead of asking for a bowl for my pears
I end up asking for Tougherware,
and rather than asking for water to drink
I ask if I can have the kitchen sink -
something goes haystack twixt my brain and mouth
and soon, all of Constantinople goes south.

On the spare hands, my fingers are light
So, if you don’t mind, I’d much rather write.



14 Lines

Written for "The Daily Poem" 


PROMPT:

Craft a poem using the concept of Lethologica.


Lethologica is the temporary inability to retrieve a specific word. It’s also called “tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.”
Although you may not have the exact word available, you may come up with an amusing alternative.