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(The get-well card from your officemates in hell)

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Recorded Reading (1:52): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9bv3cvy5av1luwkq09chp/Get-Well-Goon.m4a?rlkey=8ifv14wulasera9bwy3xhhl1s&dl=0

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Get Well, Goon

Your friend said
You’re stuck in bed
We wish you were
With us instead
Having arose
From sickness’ throes

Able to stand
Upon demand
With situations
Well in hand
Loins girded to
Our minds expand

Back in the trenches
On your toes
Back to the grindstone
With your nose
Back to the future
I suppose

Yes, back in line
And feeling fine
With a new lease
On elbow grease
To do (and be)
Of work a piece

Horizon-bound
Ear to the ground
For any sound
Which would confound
Wisdom profound
You might propound

While standing tall
Fair and fey
Master of all
That you survey
(Or so you told us
Yesterday)

Yes, we all two
Have faith in you
You will pull through
(Never mind
What those unkind
Say you will do)

We wrote this bile
To make you smile
A little while
Instead of smirk
While work you shirk
Drives us berserk!

Come back soon
‘Cause it’s no fun
Finishing
What you’ve begun:
We cannot read
Your writing, hon

And those big piles
Of office files
Upon your floor
Which we deplore
Prevent us getting
Through your door

To find what we
Might have in mind
To business do
In spite of you—
Don’t be unkind
We’re flying blind

Till you return
And feel the burn
Your pay to earn:
We’re in a crunch
As long as you
Are out to lunch

Yes, change your tune
And come back soon ~
Though resting’s bliss
We badly miss
Our pet buffoon, so
Get well, Goon!

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Homeless until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ this poet presently lives under perpetual threat of towing with all possessions should her 23-year-old van stop running for any reason.

She is badly in need of a modest reserve with which to field any emergency which might occur.

Donors may visit http://www.UgiftABLE.com , using code #72D-31S. It does take several days for the poet to be notified of your patronage.

Thank you for reading, and may your holidays be happy ones.

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