He sat for long
With folded knees
Contemplating loops
No birds
No bees
White walls
Grey desk
Humming PCs
Polite as a mouse
Bosses to please
Meetings about meetings
Vision strategies
Conformance training
HR policies
Morale events
Designed to appease
Corporate values
What the fuck
Are these?
He stood up today
To ask the trees
Can someone please
Move my cheese!
(Source of inspiration for this one – chats with my friend Sarah and posts from her Happy Rat blog, such as this and this :))
July 12, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Hello lovely friend – this is genius! I love the tie with the move my cheese book 😀 You have such a simple and wonderfully direct style, both building in the magical and ordinary. The meetings about meetings is also really great too, that sense of circularity without purpose in certain types of work, and then the pain of being aware of it all as you’re participating 😀 Keep writing! So so great. Hugs, Sarah (aka The Happy Rat who is sometimes disillusioned).
July 14, 2016 at 11:59 pm
Thank you Sarah, it feels awesome to read your comment, makes me want to keep writing more 🙂