Copyright © 2000 LeeAnn Heringer

chapter 4: in which we discuss my hours


working 12 hour days
6 days a week
i've moved past exhaustion
into determination
and a self-important sense
of tragic nobility
and have to yank
to pull myself from sleep,
but this morning
dean and i got tangled up in bed
and at nine-thirty gerry yelled at me
for being late --
the business day begins at nine.

and i listened for a reason,
because there's always a reason
if you listen long enough,

and this morning
he'd gotten a call from an investor
with a question he couldn't answer
and gerry wanted an engineer
to pour morning milk on
and have them snap, crackle, pop
the right answer right back
but i didn't know the answer
to the question at nine-thirty
which means
i wouldn't have known it at nine.

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