Your father as a territory manager
the rim of the sky we never speak of it
that twilight Cameron Schlumberger Company
floating above Product Managers
scoured Surface Solutions
said aloud under Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill 2010 Blowout Preventer
the last line of defence -(amended)
your father as a territory manager
spewing oil & gas into Gulf waters for 87 days,
a Filipino maid bent
on Jerusalem stone modified in China
the Macondo Well everything is upside down
inside its darkness the largest in Marine history,
The American International School of Muscat
over whorls of punishment & watching
comradesolidarity mewling in circles circles
its mutual fear stage lit
wanting to be an immigrant
or to become one, the 87-day-long
wait for thistles impossible in the sun
& categorically barred feelings
nurse-like Contract Negotiations
White Fathers English Faces
SGV Frac Valves machined aluminium
in red zones, hands
Kangaroo Court WhatsApp Curse
talk about radical politics, the infirmed
dead end red zones doggo
SMS anodised cascades
efforts to bring it under control
a love tool you use on yourself after
& to shame me alone to spelling
& unspelling new Euclids
Modern Homes covered in ice
& gone suddenly firebrands huddled
in the Torn Factory, I believe in paranoia now
& the mad perfection of disease
no matter what gratuitous things people do
to one another it is best a scapegoat
is painted luminous yellow
& the anonymity of the firing squad
Whatsapp Kangaroo Court Social Darwinism
cloisters one way glass
from patio to soft glade
you use it on yourself at night
due process gavel nixed metal
rond-points that turn on a ruined Eherecht
terms & conditions signed in the dark
synthetic blood provisions things float
in natural unison & the unapproachable core
of that anonymity burns around its edges
a major offshore accident,
your father as a territory manager
High Density-Polyethylene House
& endless vanguards around Purchese Street
Open Space diversionary concrete
Botched up Artwork depicting
intra sexual, intra working class sadistic act
under the Emergency Powers Act,
an upturned ark axel grease in the hospital
& the vocab slips characteristic
auto-didact drugs I know but
class struggle is really Customer Service
& the prescriptions nothing more now
being symbolically dead
everybody has tears in their eyes
but does not mind them being there
probably doesn't even know
there are complex passwords
numerical codes & physical keys,
& what it means to undarken light somewhere
with peak freedom the red tape rolodex
wraps around my neck sheds a rubber stamp.