Dressed in a dreary suit
with the laughter inside
barbed hours
what you say and do
is commando
is management
is dispensing remedies.
The multitudinous ways
you love
genuflects
the wire of hours,
manifests your pain
as ennui
as where it discovers
as curator to the snake.
Here is where
you discover
the meanings
of chore
of clerking
of the crawl.
All the most
memorable jokes
have sloughed.