Feathers

“Pillow frame of mind…”

Fowler once confessed
side by side in a Hertz bus

leaving Denver airport
after wrecking the LTM deal
(“There has to be limits.”).
No! Bad news comes later!
2000 miles away. Phone call. Email.
Not face to face, honest as churchgoers.
Wait until all facts are forgotten.
“…when your thoughts are feathers.”
Which is why we fired him. Distracted
by family and his crazy poetry shit.
Stuff that didn’t make any sense to me.
When I blurted out about the trade show
and how he wasn’t going next month,
I gave up being mean to Fowler
to form him into the grey
concrete and right angles.
It leaves me sick, stuck
between Fowler and the boss.

Yes, I knew what he meant.
But I want nothing of a world
that ain’t ever going to pay me.