Clock Sticks, freezing me
Halfway between
The coffee pot
And the floor
Never-ending afternoon
Of mundane malevolence
The muffled calls
Of far off chaos
Dragging on my attention.
A browser of second-hand misery,
I look for anything
to fill the next two and half hours.
Anything, except the thing
Right in front of me.
-2pm Drag © Mike Chernoff 4/1/2020
From the collection Carry-out Carton Fortress
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