Dirty Soda Irony

Slurp

"Utah
dirty
sodas
are so weird,"

she says

while sipping
her
cookie-butter 
caramel crunch
cold brew
topped with
vanilla sweet cream

and extra sugar sprinkles.

Irony is All Around Us

Although I am often critical of social media, it occasionally provides some interesting poetry prompts.

One pattern I have noticed is how quickly people can become critical of things they don’t understand. Sometimes the criticism is lighthearted. Too often, however, it becomes another opportunity to divide the world into us and them.

Spend a few minutes looking through their posts and you may discover an interesting contradiction. The details are rarely identical, but they are often similar enough to reveal a bit of situational irony.

Of course, I’m guilty of this as well and often fail to recognize it in myself.

This poem grew from one of those moments.