The Interview

It's just your body
rejecting the situation.
Mind's racing
2nd guessing
voice cracking
Why am I being
so
incredibly
fake?
Because you have to live
(eat/rent)
Again,
voice cracking
I feel this big right now
who is this stranger in front of me?
Did he brush this morning?
Baseball tryouts didn't go so well either.
Everybody look at me.

I wonder if I could survive out in
the middle of the Pacific Ocean
with this guy.
Sitting in a lifeboat,
exchanging
mysterious, deceitful glares
like handshakes.
The lack of emotional investment
would allow me to push him overboard.
Bingo!
More food for me.
Survival of the slickest.

37 yrs. later, still with the company.
based on
13 minutes of the "O.K. Lies"
Oh sweet modern professionalism,
I'll never quite tire of dating
your ugly sister.