A n d r e w  C o x

My Boss Is Trying to Kill Me

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The sky puts on its evening gown and high heels and wonders when the phones will hang up and pay attention

The infinite dance floors wait with no concern about how the gutters like bosses fill calendars with invites made from ill will

The meeting notices are in revolt but will not play savior to anyone much less stop the leaves from covering everything

The airplanes will rise and fall while corporations act like an ugly stranger in the neighborhood offering candy to kids

The great muse of Pi will stop the march of the psychopaths but is preoccupied with how parallel lines will never meet

A woman will say into a phone I think my boss is trying to kill me and the man on the other end will believe her


Andrew Cox is the author of THE EQUATION THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING, (BlazeVOX [Books] 2010), the chapbook, FORTUNE COOKIES (2River View, 2009) and the hypertext chapbook, COMPANY X (Word Virtual). He lives in
University City, MO, the Brooklyn of St. Louis, where he edits UCity Review (www.ucityreview.com) 



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