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Jay Robinson

Hypothesis

At the office party all the men

watched a Skins Games marathon

on ESPN Classic. How’s this

any different from the 9-5? she asked.

Like she didn’t have a shirt

in the trunk of her car that said

SAVE THE LAST LAP DANCE

FOR ME. Somewhere long ago

she’d given up on cooperative efforts.

In the workplace there was little

room for work apparently. If it starts

with a hypothesis, she told him,

it shouldn’t end with hypothesis too.

He said, Isn’t that circular reasoning?

and then he spiked the punch

again and also spiked his hair.

The last time he tried something

different they quickly realized

humility didn’t match his eyes. And

the crowd roared. But it was only

the TV. Except for her, everyone

knew what happened before it did.




Jay Robinson is Co-Editor-in-Chief/Review editor of Barn Owl Review. Poems have appeared recently inAnti-. Diode, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, The Laurel Review, and The North American Review. Prose has appeared in Poetry and Whiskey Island. Check out issues of Barn Owl Review at www.barnowlreview.com




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