Officeku

Chronic colleague
— teeth boring into fruit
with feverish urgency.

Cheshire cat grin:
Jumping at freebies,
he hoards all things not his.

Harried, hurried dash.
The pictures clash,
‘dead’lines come alive.

Walking into the pavilion,
he’s out on a duck.
A century seems decades away.

Cheaper than a plane ticket;
fake gonorrhea, herpes spell:
escape from monotony.

**
Fully loaded,
she sticks up her gun
and screams, “Bloody Mary!”