We turn into our managers and do this

Everyone at work who speaks through ties and blazers

Often speak too fast and often. During any season.

It’s difficult because I was told that’s normal for everyone.

Cycling through codes and thoughts in a hurry.

Who end up doing nothing but translate.

Obviously, that must mean the days all end the same for them

As they sit in their stiff-backed chairs watching the smoke 

Burn from their cigarette.

Selfishly I believe they try to add dimension to their lives by reading poetry.

And they smile when it’s about colorful women and unorthodox parallels about humanity.

However, they enjoy them the most when the poems are about selfish desire and unfortunate loneliness.