poem of the day 11.16.09

landlord

landlord
with his rent envelopes
outside every door
landlord
with his buzzing
hallway lights
and flies coming
in every ripped screen
landlord
with his brown water
that gives me the shits
landlord
with his timer lights
that never work
landlord
with his rents
on storage spaces
that cost only one-hundred bucks
a month
landlord
with his pants full of dollars
landlord
speaking eternity
landlord
with his work projects
and orange cones outside
my living room door
landlord
with his pretty leases
for one year
or two years more
landlord
with yards of broken blinds
and window frames
landlord
with suicide cockroaches
overturned in the basement
landlord
with his washing machines
blowing cold air
landlord
you live eternal
in all our hearts.