Executive Foliage

Executive Foliage - Beep Beep

Captive ferns caress

Finger-leaves across a name etched in office glass

There is a contract

Between the enslaved

And the master

Maintaining nature

Equal parts water

Sunlight is rationed

The fern has been misted

The pinstriped tiger keeps his "tail" coiled

Inside tailored slacks

Inside a Herman Miller habitat

Until it's time to "attack"

Lips curl back and reveal

Painting tongues against laptop sex

The fern has been misted

By the master's sweat

Equal parts water and sunlight

In exchange for executive foliage

There is a contract

Nature is maintained

"Secretary

I won't be taking calls

When you see the Venetian blinds

Are drawn closed "

Soil flies like an arterial spray

Tiny beads of vermiculite

Leaves indented by human teeth