knows it’s
odd,
longs to become three dozen
doughnuts for the office do
eggs for the wedding breakfast
poems by Garrison Keillor
barriers to knowledge-sharing
managers must consider
—of anything really
pictures itself
swanning about
in fabric shops and do-it centres
queening it over
the less-imperial metre
(quality over quantity, it thinks)
can’t stop thinking about
the joy of six
times six, four times
nine, three twelves,
two eighteens,
the fact that joy
can be doubled
by doing it the other way round
yearns to be evenly divided,
split
understands
that before long
it’ll get its wish.