Being smarter than I’m supposed to be
got me kicked out of a job at a college
where I was escorted out
because I was pretty damned stupid.

I snuck into an old office
after I had changed departments
to make copies of a zine.
When the guard asked if I was supposed to be there,
I grinned and said,
“I’ve got the key, right?”

He realized that wasn’t an answer
and checked up on me.
I was confronted at my new desk on Monday morning
and a different security guard watched me clear out my desk
and exit the building.
That was the first time that happened to me
but I soon got used to it.

I did stop publishing zines at work, though,
when businesses stopped having big copy machines everywhere.