They keep playing god-damn stupid games,
these senior managers, middle managers,
little managers
- always managing to fuck up some poor soul,
in the best interest of their uninteresting lives.
I've been pulled along and played with
to the best of their ability
- they always end up pissed off and frustrated
at my inability to conform to their ideals,
their ladder hugging journeys.
I do my best
to amuse their curiosity
- keep them interested
in a sick sort
of way.
I'm a very left-winged person
tangled to the right wing
of an out of control B52
spiralling
hurtling
killing angels as they fight for control
- of the controls,
stabbing each other in the back
with silverware stolen from refugees
- scraping, scratching for treasure
that can only be found
in hell...
Author notes
I used to work in banking and insurance. I now work in a law firm. Nothing changes...
Please tell me what you think
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DANGER!!
If you get to much into editing yourself you are going to squeeze all the life out of your work and then it will sound like ninety percent of the stuff on this sight EKK! As Hank says in one of his poems "If the poems are good they were meant to be good if the poems are bad likewise." In the time you spend polishing a poem to death you could write three more jagged monsters that will change somebody's life.
Opps! sorry for the rant! liked this poem very much. please keep em real and raw. Thanks
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Really good. Managers are all miserable assholes who hate their lives as well as yours no matter where you go. I love the rawness. great write
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I used to work in corporate America and now in education and, yes, nothing changes....
I love the image of the out of control B52!!!
"I'm a very left-winged person
/tangled to the right wing/of an out of control B52"
I guess I am the right-winged person tangled to the left wing ... but it is the same experience.
Great job!
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No editing needed here. This is as raw and clean as anything Hank ever wrote. I really like it and it makes me thankful that I am retired.
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Then you're a perfect candidate for politics!!! Natural progression... Really, this was so fun and cool and insightful- thank you so much! Gresham
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"I'm a very left-winged person
tangled to the right wing
of an out of control B52
spiralling
hurtling
killing angels" -that bit is breathtaking.
Your puns in this poem are delicious in an exact kind of way, they do show the monotony of management but they are filled with irony. Good job on this
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Thanks for the kind words piggyback. I sometimes wish I had more patience to edit my writings, cut back on fill words, scourer dictionarys for bigger,deeper words,trying to make the WHOLE of a poem 'breathtaking'.
In saying that, I absolutely adore the rawness off Charles Bukowski writing, so I'll probably keep on posting poems straight from the journals.
Best wishes -Emmjay
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the poem as a whole and didn't mean to imply I didn't; I was just pointing out which parts stood out to me most. & you're welcome
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Not in the least pb. Guess I was just airing a frustration I sometimes have with myself - my impatience
Wishes -MJ
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