Female CEO
I am so in love with the female CEO.
 My checks come on time and I saw the livestream of  her speaking
 at the Wesleyan graduation ceremony about perseverance and I wept.
 The female CEO reminds me of  the statues erected of the female CEO.
 And I saw her once in the break room, dunking a tea bag in lukewarm water,
 so I held the mug in my hands and it boiled in seconds from the love in my heart.
 My colleagues ask me to unionize but I love the female CEO.
 Last night after work she knocked on my car window holding a small limestone horse statue and said This is for you.
 Obviously I didn’t understand the gesture, but when I tried to speak, I kept neighing.
 I have started drawing the female CEO’s face on my arm with a needle and my therapist
 says this is a “negative externalized expression of [my] OCD.”
 Please don’t tell the CEO about my OCD because I am responsible
 for all of the nuclear weapons stored in shopping malls throughout America.
 There are only four but that’s still a lot for shopping malls.
 Ultimately it’s impossible to love someone if they aren’t making you.
 At my performance review today the female CEO said I had an outstanding year.
 Tomorrow I am going to tell her about the world.
Source: Poetry (June 2024)


