yellow green light

leave the car on the gravel car park, it is half past six in the morning.
walk across the crunchy surface, then between the trees, then over to the basement entrance.
Take the chip on the keyring from the pocket, and hold it against the sensor on the clock-in apparatus.

Fifteen hours twenty five minutes over time.
By this evening it will be twenty four hours.
at least.

Three days off work.
Sometime.

Walk down the brick corridor in the yellow green light of the fluorescent tubes.
Up the stairs, carrying the coffee machine, a birthday present from the son.
Open the wooden door to the office
Be at work on a Wednesday.
Just as it is getting brighter outside.

And there is no enthusiasm at all.
Set up the coffee machine
Read the instructions.
Take down the old machine, it is time for it to go.