Poetry: Administrative Insects By Joshua W.J. Brown

Administrative Insects

 

I still can’t believe I got this bitch

to drag my inbox down

from two hundred thousand emails

to about a thousand.

That is not cleanup.

That is exorcism.

That is a landfill becoming a room again.

People say don’t delete emails

like the inbox is a moral archive

and if you have too many

you’re probably a sociopath.

No.

I am not a sociopath.

I am buried in administrative insects.

Every company, form, receipt, reminder,

password, appointment, failure,

all of them breeding in the walls

and somehow the human is the disorder.

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua W.J. Brown is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker and independent researcher from Courtright, Ontario. His work moves across poetry, film, memory, institutions and borderland life; his nonfiction has appeared in Canadian Dimension.