SATAN SENT SOME DEVIL DOGS TO THE VENDING MACHINE TODAY

And so life momentarily matters.
Someone left a very large pearl (fake!) earring
on the counter by the stirrers;
not nearly as bad as the time a woman
cleaned out her breast pump apparatus
in the kitchen by the microwaves.
But that was in the old office,
where everyone was an animal.
Uptown we're far more regal—
if only by dint of higher street numbers.