The man could be the boss or could have a boss the man could have a
heart or could not have a heart the man is not working should be working
should be making profits not in fits but constantly the man looks out over
the yellow building over everything he must be the boss must be someone
significant because he is constant is above everything maybe the man is
deciding who to fire who to lay off who to slay with a fire maybe he is deciding
who to hire who is the best liar but the man doesn’t smile doesn’t smell the
flowers below or look at the people walking in the streets or the cars honking below
the man sits and stares at the shapes of vents on the roof of a building rearranging
them people are just shapes a circle for a head rectangles for the body and arms and
legs this man’s head over this woman’s body this woman’s head with another
man’s legs maybe the man is looking at the horizon wondering why a plane in
the sky is pointed downward towards the morning glories or the okra plants in the
meadow or a building with five sides