Week 13, Improv 2

Selection from “Laundry”
I do not need much: Someone
to kill the scorpion hiding
under the cabinet, someone


I do not need much: Someone
to scrub baseboards and showers,
to proofread papers, someone

to wobble on a stepstool,
reach with both arms to
fixture, swipe bulbs and lint,

return both to me. Fall to carpet
for earrings and runaway pens.
Someone to call to waiter,

This steak’s underdone. This
list’s underdone like women
and films and doctor exams.

Like exotic vacations and the faint
bruising alongside the left ribcage
like last years checks and

the philosophies of next.