this is Modern Art: / motivational / poster of the pyramids captioned ‘Achievement’ / the sky absent, savagely cropped / (how to measure achievement when the sky is absent?)
across the open plan / cool paint-tones emit calm / it’s “tooniceaday” / sun nothing but a hindrance / wimp blinds / glary monitors / staff listless / doing time behind / bars of heat / drip workflow / has sprung a lake / call logged re: the aircon
Bruce who loves Friday drinks / is not alone / hence afterwork trains sparsely passengered Fridays / & this is (isn’t this) / who ‘you’ are today / a drowner / “Gabe ‘n’ me are hitting the Deep End after work…” / your looks your talent you could be / “Anyone else?” / your self-raising hand
cubicles, ‘pods’ / officespace streaked with blonde FM / looped playlist / Phil Collins backing track / has been appropriated / bootified by crashing diva / No, I don’t Australian Idol / I am an island / mousy Support Analyst / acned / phonecall evader / in shooting out the apartment / this morning, toast in hand / neglected to carry enough / defeat music / to see out the day
Aforementioned Bruce is seasoned / old hand with old hands / wandering / knows where to sit, stand / for best access / the bar, ripe officegirls / sloshed against a washroom wall / No sorry I’m feeling / a little married / tonight
Dead links on the Intranet / What’s the name the girl from Accounts / the off-tap? / I’ll copy you in / something wicked this way / brushed by tiesilk / Are you hitting on / we’ll put it to the bored / bang on about / the ethics, if you like / “These aren’t the right minutes!” / I smell a / Steering Committee / duty-free cologne / & bulk-price handwash
Two weeks pass / Bruce gets taken out / to lunch at the brasserie / I forget, what’s the name of that swank-shack on Bourke? / clears his desk upon return / then escorted by security / heaving boxes labeled ‘Fragile’ / out the revolving doors / a chance slap of wind / scattering flock / of white papers / to blot the gutter rain
(c) Stu Hatton 2006
http://wordyness.blogspot.com/2007/02/hands-office-2006.html
across the open plan / cool paint-tones emit calm / it’s “tooniceaday” / sun nothing but a hindrance / wimp blinds / glary monitors / staff listless / doing time behind / bars of heat / drip workflow / has sprung a lake / call logged re: the aircon
Bruce who loves Friday drinks / is not alone / hence afterwork trains sparsely passengered Fridays / & this is (isn’t this) / who ‘you’ are today / a drowner / “Gabe ‘n’ me are hitting the Deep End after work…” / your looks your talent you could be / “Anyone else?” / your self-raising hand
cubicles, ‘pods’ / officespace streaked with blonde FM / looped playlist / Phil Collins backing track / has been appropriated / bootified by crashing diva / No, I don’t Australian Idol / I am an island / mousy Support Analyst / acned / phonecall evader / in shooting out the apartment / this morning, toast in hand / neglected to carry enough / defeat music / to see out the day
Aforementioned Bruce is seasoned / old hand with old hands / wandering / knows where to sit, stand / for best access / the bar, ripe officegirls / sloshed against a washroom wall / No sorry I’m feeling / a little married / tonight
Dead links on the Intranet / What’s the name the girl from Accounts / the off-tap? / I’ll copy you in / something wicked this way / brushed by tiesilk / Are you hitting on / we’ll put it to the bored / bang on about / the ethics, if you like / “These aren’t the right minutes!” / I smell a / Steering Committee / duty-free cologne / & bulk-price handwash
Two weeks pass / Bruce gets taken out / to lunch at the brasserie / I forget, what’s the name of that swank-shack on Bourke? / clears his desk upon return / then escorted by security / heaving boxes labeled ‘Fragile’ / out the revolving doors / a chance slap of wind / scattering flock / of white papers / to blot the gutter rain
(c) Stu Hatton 2006
http://wordyness.blogspot.com/2007/02/hands-office-2006.html
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