A Broken Tape Dispenser

Here's a bit of random entertainment

for those of you living 

on the razor's edge of despair

or outrage over our inherent

right of repair 

Just now I closed the kitchen drawer

and heard the scotch tape dispenser snap into pieces -- 

picking up the larger shard I tried 

To tear off a piece of tape dangling there 

and mused to myself perhaps 

I should try to tape the tape dispenser back together -- 

How meta is that 

My inner daemon replied 

And finally on the third try I managed

but by then the tape dispenser was empty 

proving that obsolescence comes 

for us moderns in many shapes and sizes