13 october

too much traffic to work
chit the chat then kick the can
all the way down to mulberry street
where are the churches
where are the steeples
where are the fingers we pretend are people
all the marvelous underwires
all the laptop heart attacks
let me nudge the alarm to snooze
let me put goodwill on sale
small tiny van in the middle of redundancy
commute 40 minutes in a plane
these are not our nonprofit days
these are the nights we don't sleep
merging onto the runway
jetblue jetbridge and all the yellow lines
if i should work before i wake
(setting boundaries, please --
    knife on the right
    west of the spoon)
the title of a book i would love to right upward
WEST OF THE SPOON
a course in three seatings