Semi-detached (03?)

Balmy, with breezes, no one walks the drive
of the industrial park, the dust unsettled
near the work crew. After the layoff
everyone who works wears sunglasses–
at a leisurely gait, little surprises
in the syntax wake you up, like that.

I have a routine: I eat and walk after.
Sometimes this doesn’t work
such as when it rains or when it’s hot.
It’s too hot. I watch nondescript fields
from the cafeteria: a power station,
some high trees, not blushing yet.

The weeds and saplings are unshaken
as of now. The new structure
gives the illusion of boundless space
in the middle of the day. To take
advantage of the situation, you must own
a car, complete shaving kit

and several changes of work clothes
with spotless shirts. How hard it can be
to get the spots out. You can scrub,
you can soak, they will stay there.

Often several solutions will not work.
But there is never a final solution,
a permanent storage facility, corrugated
as I like it, enduring but semi-detached.