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(a work poem)


I'm looking for the meter room.
The main building stretches like a prolapsed cave.
Outside, in the modular building
I'm going to tap someone from a hard-hatted group of guys on the shoulder,
Ask him where his boss is--
I decide not to disturb him or any of them,
Admiring their two dimensional saints
Airbrushed into a vulnerability no women possess
Combined with the inflexibility of wood fibers
And the inscrutability of a printed page
That no mark can resist.
I feel like an outsider at a holy shrine.
I feel uncout in the presence of a linear accelerator
Infinitessimally barricaded from a particle flow
Which speeds faster each breath.
I turn around
Back into the winter light
Back to my own cave
Back to my own search for power.



  1. Author
    Stephen Riddle
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    2007
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    (a work poem)
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    May 30, 2007

Stephen Riddle,
May 30, 2007

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