Zócalo Public SquareToday is the boss – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Today is the boss https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/09/13/today-is-the-boss/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/09/13/today-is-the-boss/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:01:01 +0000 by Victoria Chang https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=50661 Today is the boss the boss is today this day shines
                       her white teeth the day is the boss
            the boss gives us tokens today to take a bus
                                    to a restaurant to bus her table she
 
 
breaks our plates our dirty plates break when thrown
                       I sit cross-legged on the floor to do pilates to
            plot with my colleagues to glue the plates together again
                                    up in the sky a bird keeps flying in
 
 

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                       her white teeth the day is the boss
            the boss gives us tokens today to take a bus
                                    to a restaurant to bus her table she
 
 
breaks our plates our dirty plates break when thrown
                       I sit cross-legged on the floor to do pilates to
            plot with my colleagues to glue the plates together again
                                    up in the sky a bird keeps flying in
 
 
the shape of a cross the shadow of my body is a cross
                       it never leaves me it never helps me only at night
            on my back we come together briefly the next day the boss
                                    takes a bus and drives over us over our
 
 
plates again and again the boss pretends to glue us after
                        she breaks us we try to glue ourselves
            Elmer’s allows us to emerge as a different person I have
                                    a piece of someone else’s saucer as my heart

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