stepping outside my hvac hoosegow
sixteenth floor insurance skyscraper
smoke a summertime cigarette
salivate a cool down tongue bath
sweats-schvitz in mid-august
security guard says he likes my red heels
ralph lauren box in my cubicle locker
soft stash and switch out
sidewalk flats
latter day coltrane
black thigh high semisheers and an ankle chain
todd in the next cube goes home to the suburbs
his asian wife with the extra stitch
he can’t help telling on himself
if anyone wants to ask me a question i’ll be here
binning ziploc corners from my purse
Alexandra Naughton’s work has appeared in Dream Boy Book Club, HAD, Burial Magazine, Bruiser Magazine, Post Pop Lit, and Michigan City Review of Books. She is the author of the poetry collections Sick of Being Inside Myself and YOU COULD NEVER OBJECTIFY ME MORE THAN I’VE ALREADY OBJECTIFIED MYSELF and the novel American Mary.