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by The Bear Paw
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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It’s the end of the day

and I want to go home

but corporate's in a tizzy

with their arrogant noise

and I’m left exasperated

at the faustian front

of how corporate functions

with such a weak base

I’m either getting the 
silent treatment or
taking
the heat for the
transgressions
of past employees

and it’s never about the

actual work or the

expertise for which

I was hired and I don’t
even know
why I do

this every day because
I know damn well

it’s not worth the pay

and not worth
losing my life
to
the corporate beast

I should have quit

a long time ago when
the sins of corporate

were bestowed upon me

and I watch the traffic of

the late afternoon rush hour

and I think of Jackie Chan

and I start singing
“WAR!  HUH! 

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing!”

 

(c) Carolyn Red Bear, 2009
all rights reserved

 

 

 


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Reviewed by Regis Auffray 5/18/2009
I think you "speak" for many who work in the corporate world, Carolyn. This is well-expressed and meaningful. Thank you. Love and best wishes,

Regis
Reviewed by J'nia Fowler 4/27/2009
This poem is so well contained and as such clearly emphasizes the energy rumbling just beneath the lid of the boiling pressure cooker called life. Well executed. Hugs, J'nia
Reviewed by jude forese 4/24/2009
i empathsize with thid poem quite clearly
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 4/23/2009
love this write-so well brought together in the end
Reviewed by E T Waldron 4/23/2009
Great rant,Bear! I often wonder why so many of us are the concientious ones who do the most and get the least. You
need to be more considerate of yourself !;-)

Love,
ET
Reviewed by Kate Burnside 4/23/2009
Love the caption, love your poem, love Jackie Chan, love Rush Hours 1, 2, 3 whatever.... But WAR??!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! A good therapeutic write to erase the cares of a work-worn day and exorcise the Corporate Beast! Nice one, Bear! :)) xx
Reviewed by Chantilly Lace 4/23/2009
Oh my,this is great..love this..well done indeed sweet lady...keep smiling ...Hugsss
Reviewed by High Country Girl 4/22/2009
Whoa up girl lol, that's like rush hour poetry :) most expressive, I started and followed you through at a great pace.
Ty Ch'erie
Reviewed by John Flanagan 4/22/2009
Carolyn,
Strong, passionate, gutsy writing, all the rightful frustrations so well articulated in a flowing, unbroken outpouring. Maybe it's time to pull the plug. I love this!
John
Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner 4/22/2009
At least you're working, Bear, many others aren't or have lost their jobs - be grateful! But I feel your frustrations in these underappreciated, underpaid lines - well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Reviewed by JASMIN HORST SEILER 4/22/2009
All your life you trained for work, and now that you do, you don't want it? I mean Paw come on now, when you lay your head on that last pillow or rock, do you think of work, or all the work you did, who would know a million years from now, when even that pillow and the rock are gone, that in work you shone. You raise some profound questions as always. Hugs! Jasmin Horst
Reviewed by Ed Matlack 4/22/2009
Keep working, as those of us who do not, appreciate you paying your taxes to keep us in disability, unemployment, SSI, etc...Ed
Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado 4/22/2009
I miss working, but I don't. Don't miss the injustice put upon the employees, the favoritism, or ESPECIALLY those who WON'T talk to me in English! GRRRRR!!!!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :(
Reviewed by Karen Palumbo 4/22/2009
Oh those webs we do continue to weave....

Be always safe,
Karen
Reviewed by Georg Mateos 4/22/2009
Yes, it is frustrating, when I press ENTER...no one is coming! ! ! what's wrong?! when I press HOME nothing happen I am still there! ! ! and now I am afraid of pressing END and it really gonna work and I am too young to kick that damn bucket! ! !
I am going crazy or what???????????????????????

Georg

Reviewed by Gene Williamson 4/22/2009
Bear, if the escape button doesn't work, just unplug the damn thing.
You really captured the frustrations of a go-nowhere job in a don't-give-a-damn corporation. -gene.
Reviewed by Mary Lacey 4/22/2009
Fantastic! Any working person can identify with this, the long hours, traffic, doing the work of three people. You've captured it well my friend.

Mary


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