Autumn 2019. Work in logistics is tiring, tedious. It needs just enough brains and body to drain focus and physical reserves alike. Especially in the shifts, early or late or night. Especially stuck in first waves of year long pandemics. Where a curfew makes you only see boxes and inventories 9 hrs. a day and there is still the way back home, where empty apartments are waiting. There is no writing material but what can be scavenged from etiquette printers and crappy plastic ballpoint pens writing in the crevices hidden fromsupervisors or passersby.
Cuttingcartonscuttingcornerscuttingedgescutting [wā /
Cutcartonscuttingcartoncuttingfingers
way too deeply.
Fingers so
rough and cracked.
Have they always felt like that!?
Blind hands not like new born cats.
That once had a sight that now lacked.
Blind like eye-sight that wasn’t blind but was made gone.
Attached to stillborn hands coarse as ground corn under millstone,
Grains in a sandstorm.
Staring down the clock
the clock
staring
till it stops
Eyes interlocked on screens touching time
Getting blocked
Blocked by glass,
glass that can cut.
Cut tapping fingers,
cut till they bleed
Bleeding all five
1
2
3
4
All five typing numbers
2391221
Hitting keys
And for the thousandth time yes for god’s sake:
“A team 6 member to the reception please”
The speakers demand.
I walk to plead
Plead with that clock
Five minutes more
Ten minutes less
Was that half the day!?
How much has passed
What is still left
Me Me Me
Multiplying me
Multiplier on a dividend
Residue in revenue
Where are
are are ar R
Other word same letter
Where R they?
Reign, regium, rex, reign
Reproachment of reconstituted constitutions
Return, Return,
Recycling reform a retour rendering rubbish to revenue
Rent, renting.
R/
R-
R.
R
10,50
21
31,50
42
52,5
63
73,50
84
Call it a day
Call it
a day
A day an eternity away
Call it an hour
Call it dinner
Call yourself loser
They call themselves …
Call themselves …
At those games…
Those games of guessing words beginning with R
Ratespiele, Ratenspiele Rattenfänger
Rating games, gambling gains.
R/
R-
R.
R
You R
FAILURE
Fail-U-ARE
Rescue please
Other R
Gasping clasping open armed waiting R-dently
R
Ai-R filling lungs
R…
something with R
on the tongue
R!
Remembering
Reassessing
Reassembling resemblance at the reassembling resembli-line
R.
Not of bad volition.
Volition.
Volition.
Volition.
Shaking frozen on spot, thundered by thousands of volts.
R.
Re.
R.
Volition.
Volition.
Volition!
Waiting.
Waiting for?
Revelation, Reparation.
R.
Re-
R.
Yearning.
Yearning for…
Solution,
Resolution
R.
Re-