I have a cold
and it occurs to me
that we've just been
passing it back and forth
between us.
*
Chrome-face
were it easier
to think of you
as only metal,
I would do it.
*
Content with
print affixed to page.
Not a letter press
—but think! a letter press,
the machine
pushing down
so hard the paper relents;
it could tear a finger off
*
The same amount
of money doing less,
and doing more
for the kids by it;
so we can send
your mother somewhere
nice and start sleeping
together again.
*
the insipid machine,
pumping volumes
from a little pipe.
