Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Paso Doble for the Working Girl

And it's amazing how many arenas he occupies...


Boss Bull tosses his horns,
paws the turf, snorts the dreaded
snot from his nostrils.
"From now on I want ..."

As if there had never been a then.
He excretes another pile of make-work.
"I want this back on my desk
first thing in the morning."

Clownish picadors inevitably distract him
whereon he wanders off in the wrong direction,
thoroughly dissatisfied by her lassitude.
"Fix that attitude baby.
This ain't no Lully minuet."







Article © Phillip Larrea. All rights reserved.
Published in the February 24, 2014 issue .
Image(s) © Livia Vorange. All rights reserved.
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