A contemporary poem about the object has no job, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object has no job and no apology. It sits beside the printer, gathering fluorescent light. Everyone invents a use for it. I leave it alone. After work, it is still there— a small refusal to become productive before it becomes known.
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