in response to Morrissey
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now
— The Smiths, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”
we do it anyway
clocking in
punching out
eating a sandwich
at the desk
we do it because the money
lets us live in comfort
the knickknacks & trinkets
the gewgaws & tchotchkes
at the center of this world is a hollow place
holding the hopes we used to have
before we were civilized
before we learned under the feet of those
who were stamped and labeled before us
we were created not in the image of a god
but in the likeness of this world
with our own hollow places
stuffed full of coulds and mights
surrounded by the hard shell of ought
and yet:
there is a field nearby
& a rock with one sharp edge
against which to smash a shell
/ / /
Jason Crane
8 February 2017
State College, PA
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