Up Against the Wall and in a Hole with 1000 Knives

He had writer's block but that was the least of his problems. He awoke that Monday morning and attempted to look for the right metaphor - The one he had lost earlier.

It was a lost cause.

Until later in the day when he found it underneath the morning paper in the kitchen.

It read:
"He was a fish trapped in a barrel. "

Sadness fell upon him when he realised that he was lost.
He was just all mixed up.