Noah Burton

Tax Season

It scrolls down the screen

to the next page and there's

a box to check whether

you're filing taxes for yourself

or someone else or someone who died

so, Zach, someone must be doing this

this season for you,

all the lights are on in their den

and the computer is on

and your name is typed in the HR block website.

But in York, Maine the arcade

opens at 7pm,

the ski-ball machines firing up,

getting loaded, the quarters

dropping into the slots,

the tickets coming out, and

just off work we look like mimes

in our striped chef pants.