canon
i can stand
with them
young professionals
i can ride their
train at five
and they may look
twice
they may see the
scuffed knees of
my workpants, the
machine-washed pleats
of my collar
and blink but not wonder
but when i read
lorde
they don't know
that right there
button-down
i am bloody
with oppressed noise
they are a few ribs away
from a fury
they don't know
that in
their mutable
presence a
heart has been
sanctified
with them
young professionals
i can ride their
train at five
and they may look
twice
they may see the
scuffed knees of
my workpants, the
machine-washed pleats
of my collar
and blink but not wonder
but when i read
lorde
they don't know
that right there
button-down
i am bloody
with oppressed noise
they are a few ribs away
from a fury
they don't know
that in
their mutable
presence a
heart has been
sanctified