Sweeping oceans and parking lots.
Washing a president’s dishes.
Wringing underpants.
Drying hair, cutting fingernails.
Taking out garbage
(replacing new bags in the cans).
Filling out forms, mailing needless documents.
Serving and consuming mortar.
Sharing expertise on cities never visited,
(and political complexities new to you).
Picking up telephones, slamming them down.
Opening refrigerator doors.
(closing refrigerator doors.)
Traveling
(not arriving).
Studying signs directed at others.
Nostalgicizing on playgrounds whence you never played.
Chasing flames from hypothetical eyes.
Barking at God’s hilarious baboons.
Not knowing someone.
Remembering birthdays.
Helping Ferris wheels intercept miracles.
Tripping over doormats made of crayon.
Littering sidewalks with public cake.
Stealing toilet paper from Executive Bathrooms.
Drawing losers from a lottery.
Crushing democracies with babies’ screams.
Sideswiping neglected catastrophes with candied ears.
Rivaling the dishwashing skills of bubble machines.
Escaping buildings with no walls.
Finding an octopus in a junkyard.
Taking phone calls with your rib cage.