Everything We Did for The Corporations We Did for Free
There were many days when you thought
of just driving
many days where the soot-burned blackness
of your teeth and the itchy-red
of your eyes and the way
your clothes soaked up sweat was a comfort,
the prospect of a day spent driving was a comfort, because at least
you were moving toward something
still moving like the mornings
in Geneva with Silone, the city underwater
and the sun still not up, her with all her hands
and fingers tangled against the windows
and the birds madly chittering.
The church bell would sound five
blocks away to the unmoving city that sat
like a great toad undisturbed
by all around it and she would make
the tiniest sound "ah"