File This Under Structural Failure

These drawers were built to keep failure in alphabetical order. Now they’re open, strapped together, and leaning on the trolley they used to boss about. The cutter arm points out like it expects your chest to sign something. Underneath, the yellow step sulks under a load it cannot reach. The chrome crank catches the route at ankle height while the basement leaks around it. Nothing here has been filed. It has been made load-bearing.