Close the door. Put in your IV, dopamine drip With sympathy blaring like a trumpet through your ears. Down the staircase. wait by the road, Spare the commuters the trauma. Creeping across the bicherman, walking dead. Reanimated by duty, or was it instinct. ‘I look good disheveled’ haircut screaming otherwise, clothes hanging off of you like a bad omen. Shuffle into the car, driver already half infected, indifference swearing as an old drunk would. I care because I’m paid to. I’m very co-operative when I have no other Choice.
At the workplace, brutalist demeanours, menial brutality. Welcome me back to reality with plastered smiles, they smell your ambivalence. Shelter in the breaking room, delay the inevitable. punch into the machine ‘64’ ‘D7’ coffee and confectionery like rudimentary medicine. Collapse at the desk, you skin loosens. Falls off. a slow 37.5 hour decay begins.