for Cindy


Boredom

taunts the hours

of daylight

but there’s not

a lot

a file clerk

can do

even at eight bucks

an hour

I can’t stop

thinking

of you


While

money schemes

and

holiday scenes

headlines

and the weather

struggle for

my mind

in the

seven and a

half hours

still to

go


Why

should I

bother

writing of

of a person

that I

only see

once a day?

even if you are

a constant

source of

inspiration

I can’t stop

thinking

of you


And until

that time finally

arrives

all the

words

I write

to

celebrate you

can

only be

filed away


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