As/Is







5.20.2004


ringing


alarm bells ringing in my head
in the hallway in
my apartment ringing

ringing every
two minutes for three
hours & counting

testing the system they
say every month
they do this ringing

to drive us mad I
say us stay
at home writers

drug addicts mothers fathers
the unemployed the lazy
all of us that stick

close to home
are tortured once
a month ringing to keep us

alive they say

but I sit in
my office & lose
my mind a little

& I fear that working in
the film industry
is better than this

& that's some scary shit