I'd Never Heard of Rilka's Poems

i quit my job at the amazon fulfilment centre for a job that was, after all, nothing more than a start up in an obsolete indust i'd quit without giving notice. Don't ever think about coming back here, my team leader had told me. And i powered off the computer and i put on my new jacket. And when i said good night to the owner, he looked up at me startled, as if he'd forgotten i was still there. His face was flushed as if he might be about to weep. And i got the sense that he was trying to keep me from seeing what it was he had been reading. I could see the poet's face on the cover