Sheppard

Father and Child, I and II

By Paul Sheppard

Work from Home (Again)

By Paul Sheppard

Work from home (again)
Admit: I get less done here,
but there is a cof-
fee waiting in the
French press we got as a gift
more than a couple Christ-
mases ago. Free,
ground, and gifted lifting my
eyes to the bright lap-
top screen. Eyes up, dog
cuddled in as I dig in
to work on a mass-
ive stack of papers
Neverendingholyghost
of publish-or-per-
ish scientific
endeavours. Did you know that
we pay the publish-
ers when accepted?
It’s abusive and backwards,
but, hey, there were mis-
takes made along the
way. Errors and theft and theft.
Work from home while Let-
ting the days go by
same as it ever was same
as it ever was

Paul Sheppard, originally from Rosseau, Ontario, currently lives with his small family of human and non-human animals in London, Ontario, where he works as a neuroscience researcher. His work is forthcoming or published in Soliloquies Anthology, The Trinity Review, and Paper Cranes Literary Magazine. He recently took up running so is probably on the brink of a midlife crisis.