The New Yorker Sept. 28, 2020 Price $8.99
Cover: “Open Offices” by Pascal Campion
in a high-rise office building
overlooking the city
a worker stands alone
by the water cooler
holding his full cup
not looking out the window
but at the empty workspace
alive with eight plants
and nothing more
sunlight streams through
casting shadows
across the room
I can’t help wondering
if his water
is for the plants
that no one else
is there to tend
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