| Mothers clad in Coach leather |
| are swarmed in litigation. |
| I am the secretary. |
| I rub their case files |
| generating heat to release perfume. |
| I fill their shoes with the lift of hot air. |
| I burn their bridges on their lunch breaks |
| faking full schedules. |
| I dabble in the art of lobby stall. |
| I am the slow trickle filter |
| on the tap of rushing divorce force. |
| I dine on the marriage corpse. |
| At my desk I generate |
| days of auto pollution spat out from the scorched patience |
| f fenced fems on repeat lobby attendance. |
| Motoring in the grid — a pressurized wavy-lined road roast. |
| The lid whistle screams in a chorus of horns. |
| Their asses red and flustered |
| from a regimen of cush upholstered smothering. |
| Their elastic bras bulge |
| in a 12-hour life grip |
| as the stitched metal fingers chip enamel |
| from lingerie hoops. |
| A serum of skin salt/herbal lotion |
| spackles the strangled wheel at ten and two o’clock; |
| pumps pumping breaks in a repetitive rock. |
| I am the fulcrum where client and counsel meet. |
| I shift leverage to teetering lawyer leaches |
| that feed me with loyalty checks |
| from the tipped scales of their spouse-dishonered hosts. |
| I burn them all on the phone with empathetic friends |
| in similar shitty lives. |
| We wade daily through the hot grid |
| to formalize these hustles. |