but by undoing the body
of another paperclip,

or quietly attempting
to scotch

tape cottage cheese,
my coworkers

can’t know what I’m doing,
so instead

I post all day
to facebook—

feels like hiding
with tigers.

like this morning’s
presence

on the street bending
for a three quarters

smoked and
lipsticked cigarette,

work is
the phrase “make

this hour move,”
when

it should be “make this
our move.”

Original appearance in Apiary.

Come hear Paul Siegell read at the E-Verse Equinox Reading Series with Daisy Fried, Kim Bridgford, and Laynie Brown in Philadelphia.