from Train Dynamism
Rachel Daley
people want newspaper things from other people
the car on fire
a regular math teacher
the meanest enhancing award
sadly the staffing woes
to get rid of her nuclear weapons
there beheld the mistakes before us
anti-black, scrawled in dust, or
the test results both white
a different approach in life and love
cannot be having sex
with this stunning model before us
they slept in the morning
on a floor forward moving
between library and sheets
the odd patterns on the floor
the commotion
in the apartment
that man’s wife moving
that man’s wife, wearing no shoes, and the
commotion in the apartment next door. the fire
from a car, hoping for relief from those who were
mistaken, moving forward in the medical
dictionary, and the screaming neighbors, usually
quiet, screaming next door. taking as testimony, to
get rid of weapons. sleeping over that morning
white, enhancing, and working to make the world
not upper souls. living lives. both
patrolling, upper and lower sheets, both thinking
sadly, of the stifling woes. the odd patterns
between the library and the infirmary. odd
patterns under the weight of the living room
anti scrawled in the dust