Paper Trail
Posted in Literature on Mar 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Frenetic, as it landed
on the document tray,
an acid-tounged letter
replied to on impulse.
Foreshadowing regret
of telephone laments-
“What had happened?”
Post-its scribblings
by broken Staedtler
Staple wires sealing
recycled envelopes
while shredder syncopates
a denouement-
“Who’ll be the next?”
Attached in clips,
highlighted in neon-
eavesdropped gossips,
disguised information.
A persuasion of hearsays
into domesticated opinion-
“Is it the last day?”
The day of reckoning,
desks to be cleared-
clutter and disposables
into half-filled wastebin.
Empty cardboard [...]