Phone Book Angels by Northfield Lenox

The school was built in 1930
Two stories, brick, square, solid.
Go down the stairs: Storage and Cleaning.
Basement within a basement.
In the basement there is a small dirty black door.
Go into the black door, there is the boiler.

Near the boiler, a table.
Oiled rags for cleaning chalk boards.
Vacuum for the brushes, electric vacuum motor.
Electrical vacuum.
Near the boiler, a table.
Basement within a basement
A poorly lit table covered in plastic.
Electrical plastic.

Phone book angels.

(Could you change the station please?)

Near the boiler, a table.
A poorly lit table covered in plastic.
Electrical plastic.
Each page folded, each page pasted, by a child.

Near the boiler, a table.

(Could you change the station please?)

On the table, a chorus of phone book angels,
splattered with spray paint,
flecks and sparkles on Styrofoam heads.
Dirty wool for hair.
Wet wool, covered in snow.
Snow on the window, snow on the floor.
In the basement, a dirty black door.

Phone book angels.
Styrofoam heads
Phone book angels.
Aerosol

Comfort.
A river within a river.

On the table, a chorus of phone book angels,
splattered with spray paint,
flecks and sparkles on Styrofoam heads.
Dirty wool for hair.
Wet wool, covered in snow.
Snow on the window, snow on the floor.
In the basement, a dirty black door.