microscript
At a tiny table, by a tiny window
I play hangman
(where Robert Walser composed
one too many stories)
We are guileless – like the spearhead
of an army. One that sends its fellows
by the thousands. Fodder. (or guileful-
it works both ways) We are either all
or nothing by name and repute and
get this – by the orientation
on the toilet door. I was once told
it’s easier being two-dimensional.
Christian Brookland likes to type very loudly on his old Olivetti. His writing has been published in Ambit and 3:AM Magazine, and he’s just finished his first novel.