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Dana kinsey

Swingline

You reign over my desktop 
sleek&slate 
only your hyper-readiness 
your Slimfast body stuffed with steel
your old-boy-network 
princely desire to 
lord over my desk 
cajole flowered folders 
to unbloom into piles
high above you 
even the clock ticks more evenly 
under your glare
but you have no power over me 

with your passive-aggressive 
reminders of why I need you 
you listen to me  type    
copy/paste   *sigh* 
backspace 

I know you judge me 
Hungry Gray Stapler 
with your superpower 
to shotgun-marry two papers 
or ten never to separate again 
unless four teeth pry them open 
break the blessed union 

once your savage hold 
kept my words well ordered 
rising action before climax 
divorce decrees orderly 
my poems from becoming paper airplanes

S. Erin Batiste
Dana Kinsey is a writer, actor, and teacher with poetry published in Writers Resist, One Art,  Broadkill Review, For Women Who Roar’s 2020 Anthology, Fledgling Rag, Silver Needle Press, Porcupine Literary,  Greatest City Collective,  Sledgehammer Lit and prose in Prose Online, Teaching Theatre and Tweetspeak.  Dana's play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre for the Radioactive Women’s Festival. 
Art: Summer Dreaming 1 by Rina Patel
  
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