Work like the job is the calandar
is the year and the leap year
is the off day once a week
and the money is the sunlight
you are saving in jars like fireflies
which are the good customers
who are the ones who show you
the kindness and you show them
the television and the television
is the something inside you
that is like a window
and the windows are gone
from this enormous room
because someone discovered
when you have windows
the customers go outside,
and outside is what you buy
televisions to see and soon
the television sets will get so big
it will be like you can go outside
in your own living room
I told the customer that is when
they will charge us to go outside
and she looked nervous
and had there been a window
maybe she'd have missed the sun
and god and what do I miss
inside the bunker all the day?
I see birds and they're all I can love
Outside there are chipmunks
just barely making it past the wheels
of cars with ambivilent drivers
and the drivers are the customers
and the customers are the ones
who are coming in to smile
or not to smile, to walk away
when I ask "can I help you?
can I help you? can I help you?"

Doesn't anyone need help finding anything
anymore?


-e.




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