Ides of April
Filing Taxes.
Over the phone.
Right now.
...
...
Trying, at least.
$324 will be
mine,
I hope.
...
Tedius waiting
on hold
with muzak
that draws up images
of meadows
and lilies
and frolicking
and hundreds of
burning buterflies,
covered in gasoline,
shrieking microscopically,
and cursing the fact
that they have no other purpose
than to satisfy an image
in my head.
Over the phone.
Right now.
...
...
Trying, at least.
$324 will be
mine,
I hope.
...
Tedius waiting
on hold
with muzak
that draws up images
of meadows
and lilies
and frolicking
and hundreds of
burning buterflies,
covered in gasoline,
shrieking microscopically,
and cursing the fact
that they have no other purpose
than to satisfy an image
in my head.