Diana Darby ** "I V" ** Intravenous

I didn’t deny it
when the librarian pulled up my card and said,
“Oh, You still work at the library, don’t you?”
And I didn’t deny it
when she asked me,
“What do you do?”
and I said, “homework assistant.”
And I didn’t deny it
when she asked me if it were a long
commute from where I live to the Pruitt Branch.
"It’s not too bad," I said.
I don’t know why I did it.
I just couldn’t bring myself to say
I didn’t work for the library anymore.
Maybe it’s the fact that I never get charged late fees,
or maybe I just want to be a part of something,
or maybe I just don’t want to let the library know
they’re so fucked up
they think I work for them
even when I haven’t worked for them
for almost three years.