The spreadsheet has forty columns

The spreadsheet has forty columns

and I am somewhere in the middle of them.

I found a drawing in my old desk today—

a man in a copper helmet, walking

on the bottom of the ocean.

I’m walking to the parking lot now.

The 'Check Engine' light is a steady amber eye

watching me from the dash.

It’s been on since August.

I just turn the radio up

so I don't have to hear the rattling.