11-26-2021, 11:31 PM
Blue Monday to Black Friday
a quick trip as the weekdays grew longer
filled with paperwork and fantasy.
The whole sick crew, my comrades
in the hole, shifting the forms
from one box to another box,
not so secretly in love with our distractions,
games of love and hate but never indifference
as above us the fluorescent lights kept watch:
there was Lucretia, the office femme fatale,
Rufus who looked like the cowardly lion
flaming red hair and beard to match,
Drusilla the unhappy maiden,
Titus, conspiracist extraordinaire,
Romulus dressed to the nines in suit and waistcoat.
It was a department of misfits where
I happily landed. Five years we spent
together, thwarting all attempts
to turn us into a functioning bureaucracy.
On Fridays I had to leave them behind,
facing a lonely weekend of dismal waiting
until Monday came again and with it
the joy of seeing them anew,
paperwork in hand, forged passports
to another weeks’ eruptions of delight.
a quick trip as the weekdays grew longer
filled with paperwork and fantasy.
The whole sick crew, my comrades
in the hole, shifting the forms
from one box to another box,
not so secretly in love with our distractions,
games of love and hate but never indifference
as above us the fluorescent lights kept watch:
there was Lucretia, the office femme fatale,
Rufus who looked like the cowardly lion
flaming red hair and beard to match,
Drusilla the unhappy maiden,
Titus, conspiracist extraordinaire,
Romulus dressed to the nines in suit and waistcoat.
It was a department of misfits where
I happily landed. Five years we spent
together, thwarting all attempts
to turn us into a functioning bureaucracy.
On Fridays I had to leave them behind,
facing a lonely weekend of dismal waiting
until Monday came again and with it
the joy of seeing them anew,
paperwork in hand, forged passports
to another weeks’ eruptions of delight.