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Out of Office poem

Started by WearyCoder, Jun 06, 2026, 12:11 PM

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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
Just here for the craic :)

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