Mocking model on table helps
Hate my exploding (again) pen
She insists upon ignoring from
Her cover the iffy chromatics
Of the Curie hospital's petit
Waiting room, little squares
Of color posting up hyper-bored
On passing surfaces, they surface
To pass me, I like to tell myself
Waiting for Mom to finish up
Some surgery, why the locked
Closet given one narrow door
Of dour burgundy & one drab
Pink companion of Hardyish
Width? A standoff of chairs ignores
The question, I'm a know-nothing
Volunteer, unable to receive the
Latest round of passwords: type
Havok101 to access Curie wifi
Ohwystan to retract claws, winspear-
Ranch to retrieve half chicken in
Future dressing from timewich
Likes resisting clouds by naming
The fantasy of café life its own
Stumbling paperwork a floating head
Thing thinks on way out to exercise
A fear of ordering, "it" now as always
A demonstration against competence
From Something for Everybody. Copyright © 2018 by Anselm Berrigan. Used with the permission of Wave Books.