futile

Tuesday

October 8th.

Today is the day that the new

cafeteria at work opened its doors. It is the same distance,

a wooden building, a concrete building

coated in wooden boarding, all plywood,

The doors are heavy steel, power assisted.

They are more secure than the doors of a bank

The cielings are too low , even though they

are not really low. The seating is newly

made, immovable, benches with high backs

like church pews. It is not a cafeteria.

At first sight, it is an uninviting place

But huge.

Today is the day of the lecture on nuclear

safety, radiation protection, or whatever

they wish to call it.

Write these notes, a

steadily increasing

sense of futility.

The fifteen minute break from work

will be up and over shortly.

That is going to be and over shortly,

A boring day.