UNSCHEDULED DOWNTIME
by Jeff Jeppesen
outside
a summer hailstorm is beating the shit out of my two month old car
but I won’t find that out for about 15 more minutes
inside the warehouse
it is snowing through the automatic skylight/roof-vent thing
the winds ripped open
cold hissing drowns out the grinding of miles of conveyor belts
chills the sweat our clothes have soaked up
and all around the growing pile of ice
myself and a dozen or so floor workers on their pallet-jacks
and forklifts have stopped to watch the weird wonder
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