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I knew a man who lost it once... or twice

i sit my **** down

and feel the office nudging

a bored embrace inside an over-lit room

hell drooling on the back of a flea

spewing and rubbing its stomach full of bloated dead waterfalls

one eye standing up and looking down into a smile that i send back up

a joke is cracked about local *** around 11pm and our screens twitch

enough to ignite all the hatred and desire in the world

and if i stay here

i will finally just call you up

and ask to borrow your tongue to write my will

all hearts turned sideways and sleeping

so

enough room to dance about it all at least

even if all this will come later

the surreal worships of speed

baked in heels of bear trap misery

enough to drink another coffee and sneeze perhaps

or enough to turn over and become a beetle

where sweat becomes each other’s air

without choice

death flys by our eyes like so many commuters moaning at the same time

and a buggered cup of sun pouring into the arguments i’ll never know

where a timed **** allows me to exhale

and a sly nudge brings me back…

 

time to go

time to go bud

the tap says

 

even if it’s time to be using my hands again

where if time repeats

i’d rather it was this way

and gladly

 

another world becomes.

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Written by
Renemutume
Published
May 1, 2017
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#office#work#temping#working#life
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