Work-From-Home

Oh dear Poe and Dickinson, I don’t know how you did it.

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Work-From-Home

I am going crazy

sitting inside this house.

They call it freelance

but I call it shut-in,

this endless typing of nonsense

onto a dead screen like it’s a friend

because it’s the only thing I’ve got

to talk to,

all day,

all the time.

I will tell you my stories,

dear static of electrons and gigabytes.

I will tell you all these things

inside my head,

poured endlessly

into the wasteland of a blank word document.

That’s all you are, after a...