DOMINO’S


A trip over to Domino’s
8:00pm on a Saturday
was like walking into another dimension,
this mainframe where thousands of phone calls
converge on the red blue and white workers
locked into their positions with nowhere to climb
families and friends coming to sit for their pizzas
as I stood for mine
hallucinating on the functions in modern-day
Washington Heights wondering how often everyone
really looked at themselves deep within
seeing their naked reality and where it isn’t going
where it could go searching for something else
please...


January 30, 2005
© Ben Gerstein