"The Blank Document"

It's Effie.

This is a satirical poem I wrote a few weeks ago. To understand it, copy and paste it into a blank Word document.

The Blank Document 

I wrote this poem to apologize.

To apologize for the empty calories you are feeding your brain

As you read this poem

That means absolutely nothing.

The cosmos cry out

For their meaning is taken away

By a single breath

Of this nonsense poem

That means, in total, nothing.

I truly do apologize for this

Because your life will be forever and irrevocably changed

After you read this poem

That, in truth, means nothing.

It’s fitting, is it not?

To write a meaningless poem

On a document supposedly blank

Yet filled with the futile words of this poem

This poem that is the very definition of nothing.

I don’t know why I wrote it –

Was it to satisfy some unvoiced need in the pit of my soul?

Was it to express the meaning of meaninglessness?

Either way,

I will stop immediately

For two pages of a poem so hopelessly hollow

Are two pages too many. 

I'm sorry. What am I doing with my life.

Have a wonderful, meaningful day. :)


~ Effie