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Management

by  joanie

Posted: Friday, May 26, 2006
Word Count: 72
Summary: A response to a) the exercise in Poetry Seminar and b) my situation at the moment at work!! Two birds, one stone.




'What would happen if I told her
what I thought?'
e mails fly across the ether
of a two metre wide corridor.
Post-it notes appear on desk tops,
mysteriously placed in negative time.
The enigmatic smile irritates.

'What would happen if I told her
what I thought?'
Policies are produced, politically
perfect. Reluctant minions perform dutifully
to fulfill the criteria borne of
Government committees. Somehow
life is drowning in this garden pond.