Office Hours
by stubborn_would
· 23/12/2025
Published 23/12/2025 17:06
Mr. Devries is eighty pounds lighter
than he was in the eleventh grade.
He’s at the Garden Center,
hugging a sixty-pound bag of mulch
like he's trying to keep it from falling.
The trunk of his Buick is rotted out.
He’s wearing a polo shirt—
pale blue, with a dark, wet map
spreading between his shoulder blades.
He’s just a man with a bad back
who failed me in eleventh grade.