Out of Office poem

[WearyCoder]

I have set my absence
to reply automatically.

Thank you for your message.
I am currently unavailable
for things that require me
to be present.

I will respond
when I have found
whichever version of myself
was here before.

If this is urgent,
it isn't

[Gareth_11]

If this is urgent, it isn't is one of those lines that is funny and then is not funny at all a second later

[BiscuitTin]

Currently unavailable for things that require me to be present is the best description of dissociation I have read in a very small space

[Anvil33]

Whichever version of myself was here before is genuinely beautiful. The idea that the self you need to recover is itself a lost thing

[Sega26]

The out of office as a mental health metaphor is so precise and so current. Everyone who has ever needed to disappear for a while will feel this