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There ought to be a word

to describe

the condition you find yourself in

when you’ve made a plan

and set it in motion

only to discover

that your plan has been overtaken

by changed circumstances,

that surprise has set in,

that how you envisioned things being

bears little resemblance

to what has unfolded in their place,

rather than having to resort

to employing 80 other words

to paint a picture

of what ought to be describable in one.

17 December 2015

Tim Konrad