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The Office Thief

Matt Marinovich

We’re going to fire you.
We want you to know that.
It’s just a matter of time.
And you can sit in that cubicle
all day long, texting god knows
who, with your feet kicked up in those
wrinkled black stockings
and your finger twirling
your blonde hair
and letting it slowly unravel again
and we know how much
you’ve taken and even the
cruelest things you’ve filched
like Joanne’s patent leather pumps
that she had left beside her
desk when she left for the gym
and Mindy’s prescription card
and Alan’s driver’s license
and Susan’s camelhair coat
with her dandruff still intact
on the shoulders. Is it a joke?
Are you mentally ill? Do you
spread each item out on the
bare kitchen table of your dimly
lit apartment as you slowly
eat last night’s Pad Thai?
The loneliness will double,
you will have internal pains,
And then the first grim signs
of spreading cancer,
or a blood clot in one of your
thin limbs, and we’ll
find ourselves somewhere,
long after a loanshark
has admistered the coup de grace
and let you fall forward
as if your were being asked to pray,
bit by bit, we’ll get it back,
even the empty wallet you tossed in a mailbox
walking away with shards
of melting snow in your hair
as you tilt forward, hands in the pockets
of your odd-smelling coat,
your fingers curling around
supermarket receipts and cold pennies.

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