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Corporate Blood Loss

Posted by loubird on December 20, 2007


The veggie party plate molded slowly in the

bland, refrigerated innards of the office break room,

symbolizing years of cheap paper plate parties

and pepsi in plastic cups.

We wait 358 days for a lap in a snack maze

to a stale soundtrack of

“where’d you buy that new polo, Derek?”

and

“we finally finished our patio Laurie!”

Two days of freedom follow and then

back to the backstabbing antics of the snack maze.

Manager #1’s repressed homosexuality sours his sighs

Manager #2 sours the whole room with his tea-laced breath

Manager #3 moans about his trips to New Zealand and the Caribbean

SOUR SOUR SOUR SOUR!

the yogurt’s past due

the half and half curdles

the ants chain themselves to their shitty PCs for 15-20 years.

I see everyone dragging around moaning,

blood comes out of their noses.

Too much blood loss is bad for your health,

in fact, over the years, it can cause death.

 

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