I am not allowed into the apartment
until I complete the assignment.
I am the one who made the assignment.
I am the one judging completion of the assignment.
I am the one stopping me from entering the apartment.

I sit out in the cold car
hands blue
tip-typing away to make my points known
so that I might find warmth
once again
in the cockles of my home
at the time that I have earned it.

I will have earned it soon
when I have completed the assignment
that keeps me from my destined heat.

Any minute now
I will be released from servitude
from this car
and may return to my home
once I am done.