Matthew Herfurth Poet Free verse

Chunken Funkel #14

on the west side roam take a rest on a stool by the railing seventeen seconds the glass above Floor Three ceiling gets haemoglobin condition Help Desk Clerk on this floor drops dead build up of angry piles craving a vacation seventeen seconds one recycling bin on each floor burps seventeen seconds a diamond worth a grain of rice flies out of a normal never individual or distinctive in nature woman’s mouth seventeen seconds discarded tissue on Floor One gives birth to a wine glass seventeen seconds small bird finds a chip separated four shares gives all four shares to an artificial concept discovered in a phone booth seventeen seconds some freeze dried coffee suicides seventeen seconds Mrs Blackboard becomes popular after she wears dress changes colour seventeen seconds one of the twelve lamingtons hand picked by Christ spread positively gospel gobbling frantically a box of heartburn tablets seventeen seconds the fake plants narrow long-leaved in black pots huge inside the east side main entrance doors grow blackheads seventeen seconds the lamb chops rise find their other parts put themselves back together split back home to Elmwood Hills seventeen seconds my elbows start blinking seventeen seconds the fatherless oak stained wood dividers in all the railings speak about TV remote crushes seventeen seconds the old black white brown spots red carpet begin to stretch legs seventeen seconds all stuck pieces of gum unstick themselves leave for good retire in Florida seventeen seconds strewn on the floor rectangle digital advertisements neon coloured screen enclosed in wood upright proud go on strike until they’re fed carrot peels & weevils on heat also they request for dinner anything not being taken into consideration gathering of equipment put to work for a specific purpose one’s faith abandoned at least six brand new brief clever sayings expressing a common truth those & those who breed take care of bees the best way they know how & any past long or short past an event of mighty destructive violence 

now west side of Floor Three on my knees lapping up water dog bowl outside Pet Haven feeling refreshed conquered something 

centre aisle blank-faced smart-**** neat accountant clenched red on pale fist knocking noggins of strangers snapping he’s getting attention soaking in all the feelings he never got in class

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