DOG HOURS

8 hour job

lead heavy legs 

feet boiling in sock sweat

overloaded trolley rattling down the corridor miles

i am too busy/too lumbered 

for 

lunch 

today

we live

LIVE

for 4 o’clock

8 dog hours

then Home

where

mundane maintenance is

FIGHTING

dreamy creativity

i am sitting too near the fridge and the ice

beware 

the Lurid Exhaustion

that will throw you off the graffiti desk

when 

the 

music 

is SUDDENLY TOO LOUD

8 dog hours

killing the poor story you're made to live

and today i saw

a nurse takes the earrings from a dead childs ears

the 

screen 

hid nothing

8 dog hours

i'm walking them out

eating on the run

then a lesbian's driving me home