(stare)

I stare at my bulletin board
waiting to see what comes
fresh gotu kola
a photo of him
books I might read,
the room is too quiet
as is my life.

it works against my
natural tendency
to make noise,
or is it just
a backdrop
for that?

I hear hammers
in the distance
the buzz of my laptop
he is working in a room
with tan walls
that make me feel ill
other people’s rooms
always make me ill
he caznnot hang anything
on the walls,
I told him cause
it would make
hime human
there is ususally
a corporate policy
against that.

I have been scheming
of how to beat this
plan, with plants
bulging from baskets
and photos that sit
on shelves