The Cave of Hypnos: Early Poems
The Bureaucrats
They are pencils
starting sharp
ground down
each day
between grey
file cabinets
never knowing
the hand
that writes
with their
numb bodies
slowly
as the
hour hand
goes
by.
Copyright © 2012 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
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