The Slots in the Wheel Are Far Too Small for Modern Mega-Cherries

Hey, don’t skip the title.
Go back and look at that.
Sure, it’s a quotation

From some prose nonfiction.
Nice rhythm it’s got, though,
Doesn’t it? And strangeness.

Poetry loves strangeness.
Can you guess the topic?
It’s an analogy.

The topic is mental
Illness and when feeling
Bad can have good reasons.

Things have changed. In this world,
The slots in your machine
Can’t pit the giant fruit

Your era’s providing.
You’re going to chip a tooth.
But what a strange machine.