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in the cities all the offices
have closed now 
every home is an office

I wake up in my office 
in my bed spread sheets
safe in a crisis

out the window the city 
is covered in invisible danger
out the window a blue day happens

my boss calls 
from a remote part of the same city
from upstairs 
from the bedroom
from speakers
in my head 
the forbidden blue 
happening to other people 
& to everyone

she says she wants me 
to show her my face
my bare bone
walls 
where all the cracks are 
inside


from Profit
In the room where we remove still-tied shoes,
where we have warm oatmeal & hot coffee,
where I recovered from injuries with
a cat laying on top of where it hurt,

& in the room where in the morning I
feed the cats & make oatmeal & coffee
& where I taught myself to fill a place
with the smell of freshly baked bread or smoke,

& in the room where I sleep & you sleep
or don’t sleep & where we struggle to wake
& where our tooth-brushed mouths find each other
& where above the bed we hung a print

of a small white house alone near water
we imagine we’re living in our home.
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