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This is where it gets tricky:

When your whole life is more or less organized
and you've got things running, not perfectly,
but in a way that is self-sufficient and smooth

and then someone comes along and fucks it for you
an ex-spouse, a new boss, or just an illness
that you can't afford to catch

And you're stuck there,
with all aspects of your life neatly balanced
except for this one problem
you have no way of fixing
that would love to slowly consume
everything else you have
leaving you juggling
more knives than you know how to handle
waiting to see which one will fall to the ground