Benjamin H. Henry

from: School Pictures: Portrait Production

October 31

devices are working but worthless,

combined in a compilation, a pile,

a towering monolith, a phallus,

a message to america of complication

and harmony in work and spending dollars

on air time, channeled through a tunnel underground

where workers plough through layers of lode

and lay wires to connect and separate those above,

way up above in the open air;

time rolled in negative layers, concern

for Friday's arrival and checks locked

at the back door constantly guarded,

and waiting on break, sitting with a stare

over heads and beyond resounding voices.