Privileges

The last one out has to turn off the lights,

but he also has the place to himself

and can take some time to shoot a few

from half-court, eat a seedless grape or two

in the produce section, finger the keys

of the pipe organ, write anything

he wants to on the blackboard,

sit in every car on the showroom floor,

whistle "O Söle Mio" in the reference section,

flip the "Now Serving" numbers all the way to 99,

try on a jacket from the cashmere rack,

sing to himself in the empty house,

make her name echo in the hollow rooms

before the click of the switch ends everything.