poem of the day 07.06.11

wine store sean

wine store sean
stared at the walls

while others were having lunch

while others watched the television

wine store sean sat there
and stared at the walls

while others talked
hockey and football

while some of them read
or looked at pictures of naked girls

wine store sean
looked at the walls

while the bosses criticized
and the workers moaned for new jobs

as they complained about customers
as the calendar flipped too slowly

wine store sean
stared at the walls

some came and went
some drank on their lunches
to dull the pain

and while some of them said
goodbye and hello

wine store sean was a hero

never laughing
never saying a goddamned thing

just staring at the walls

until it was time
to go back on the clock.