Erika Koenig-Workman

Killing Time


We are KILLING

Ourselves to live


No one has TIME

To speak


In BC Canada


We are KILLING

The farm lands


Do three part-time jobs

Add up to one full time


Time to put away dreams

Time to take them back


BC Business as usual

Win at the gas pump


Remember SupernaturalBC

I was brought up on it


On that commercial

Without understanding


Then all of a sudden

I was one with BC


Called out to the Wild West

Like so many others before me


It is the magnetic pull

The coast waves calling


To some it reverberates

An echolocation resounds


As if it becomes deeper

So that we can no longer


Extricate it’s longing

Deep within us


We resign ourselves

To this magnetic geography


This blessed rainforest

Where we choose to dwell


Whole towns are bought by

People who can purchase


Power is such that

Money is money


This money is

KILLING TIME


In BC Canada