with a whimper

after spilling

an enormous glass

of chocolate milk onto

my password

book.

i begin to cry.

the letters and numbers

run into one another,

smudged out of existence.

it's all gone, all those

years of hard work

coming up

with clever passwords

and non consecutive numbers,

symbols,

now gone to waste.

what am i to do.

how will i ever log

on to amazon again,

to Target

and DSW,

to the DMV, to Medicare and

social security,

Kaiser Permanente?

what about e-harmony,

and tinder and bumble,

and farmgirlsinKalamazoo?

this is how the world

ends, at least my world.

not with a bang, but

with a whimper.