The signs and signals
make no sense.
Two people across the way
are talking but
their hands
and mouths are saying
opposite things,
and both are disconnected
from their eyes.
They may as well be
fish, blowing empty
speech bubbles
into uncomprehending air.
I say something
no one seems to understand.
Buses arrive and pause
grunt and pass
but no one gets on because
their destination boards
are talking gibberish.
Since yesterday
even the dishwasher
is refusing to end its cycle,
but is sending the water in
water out,
pushing the rinse round
and round,
and is suddenly speaking
Swedish.