Lyric Poem · Funny
Out of Office (Forever)
The out-of-office message
is permanent today:
"I'm sorry, I have plans now.
Indefinitely. Hooray."
No meetings that could be emails,
no emails. None at all.
Just mornings with no alarm clock
and a hammock's gentle call.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Out of Office (Forever)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Funny, Happiness
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 6-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalOut of Office (Forever), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 3b87dafa5d1fa05e…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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