Center stage
At the middle of the chaos
Is the switching engine
Setting up the homework to be done and
Filing it away in the yellow folder and filing
the yellow folder away in her backpack
Bringing in the mail and the thank you
notes hand delivered in school cubbies and
Shifting the neighbors mail into the
neighbors mailbox
Washing the applesauce out of the
lunchbag and
Putting in the tiny tupperware filled
with yogurt and securely closed
Removing the guineapigs dish containing
one small turd and
Exchanging it for one containing two
baby carrots, three grape halves, and a bunch of parsely
Taking a full baldder and
Facilitating its emptying
Trading
Swapping
Replacing
Substituting
Bartering
Switching
Not in the glamourous way from history
and adopted memory
No steam
No smoke
Just a diesel switcher in a gray and
dirty freightyard
It’s 2013
Glamour is cancerous
Chaos is timeless
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