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Last time she worked a paid job
full-time admin
a morning of furious data entry
the start of painful fumbling
and that right middle finger fixed
in a semi-permanent salute
took unpaid time off—
get her fingers re-trained
on an ergonomic keyboard
to keep going
A night-class assignment
write
for twenty minutes
no computers available
A pencil would be torture
the only way—just
dictate on a cell phone
sitting staring
out in the hall
apart from the others
During rehearsal a cast member
slashed open his thumb
she had chipped a glass prop onstage
and failed to alert the crew
Decades later she overheard he
had died in miserable torment
a systematic betrayal
finally preventing
even breathing
his hands
long since useless
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