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Senryu, September 2019

Sudden Change

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Apple cart upset — Image from: http://gentleshepherdbaptist.blogspot.com/2011/02/christians-who-upset-apple-cart.html

Thoughts rolling around wildly

Chaos replaces status quo

Apple cart upset

Senryu

“upset the apple cart” meaning: wreck an advantageous project or disturb the status quo.

The use of a cart piled high with apples as a metaphor for a satisfactory but possibly precarious state of affairs is recorded in various expressions from the late 18th century onwards.

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

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Someone’s always watching me,
Or racing to beat me.
It seems they can’t live without me!
In the morning I wake them
When they tell me to,
Yet then they often get angry
And hit me!
People are always saying I move too fast,
Yet if I stop, they get upset!
I really don’t understand the logic of it all,
But then, I’m just a clock!