The fate of the inter-
office matchmaker
is to be forever
sitting on press
releases intuiting one
big happy time zone.
Whither the lamplight
and moreover
the magic beans—
surely the prospectus
will guide us?
He says my heart
beats in the sun,
he says I’m just saying,
he says nobody
just says,he says
the troops are literal
and I’m working
on my skee-ball game,
he says we serve
at the pleasure of
harm’s way,he says
Muzak has gotten
really sophisticated,
he also says poison
grows and grows
everywhere and will
outrun us all.
Mark Bibbins has written The Dance of No Hard Feelings, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. He teaches at The New School and lives in New York City.