THE BOSS CALLS US AT HOME
- Victoria Chang
The boss calls us at home the boss can call us
anytime
the boss tells us to turn on the television
not to go into work I watch over and over
the planes the buildings that met each
other wept each other the people stuck
the boss tells us to turn on the television
not to go into work I watch over and over
the planes the buildings that met each
other wept each other the people stuck
the boss’s voice
shakes the boss must look familiar like a
mother like a sister but the boss isn’t our mother isn’t
our sister the shoe doesn’t fit she can
whimper does whimper can feel sorry for other people
can vomit sadness when someone says
it’s personal when is it not personal about the person
when the planes crashed into the
towers the pilots’ bodies met a CEO their bodies
pressed together their power latched
together on the 54th floor hating each other embracing
each other like an accordion
shakes the boss must look familiar like a
mother like a sister but the boss isn’t our mother isn’t
our sister the shoe doesn’t fit she can
whimper does whimper can feel sorry for other people
can vomit sadness when someone says
it’s personal when is it not personal about the person
when the planes crashed into the
towers the pilots’ bodies met a CEO their bodies
pressed together their power latched
together on the 54th floor hating each other embracing
each other like an accordion
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Victoria Chang will read this Wednesday February 12 from 6-8 in HIB 135 at UC Irvine. No doubt she'll be reading from her new collection, The Boss.
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