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Loot

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7 ages of Compromise

Compromise when viewed as a generation schism.
Refracted through time, like light through a prism.

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Speak Easy

If hush is a ghost, it will soon become phantom.
If silence is a pool, then I wager, it’s a deep one.

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And so it is (reading two)

You look at me, a thousand cogs whirl in your mind.
How old is he, what does he do, his face looks kind.

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Dictate or another trait? (reading two)

Belligerence, fortitude, stubbornness and greed
Are these necessary traits for one to succeed?

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Doing unto others (reading two)

Really, make retribution your master and your king?
Really, consider making realised vengeance sing?

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Scratch the scar

The skin is thin and you know you’ll bleed.
Don’t start itching.

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The Curtain's up

Fortuitous though it may be, the curtain’s been raised.
I am sitting in a pub, content, happy and slightly amazed.

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The Three Kings

‘Twas a dodgy outside light drew me in.
Donkeys everywhere, as I begin.
And reverently, I approach the troug

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The Fire Station

Dante told me of the fires that burn.
The enveloping flame, the truth I will learn.

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One Small Step

Sense and sensibility are intuitively guiding me, holding both of my hands.

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Life of a salesman

If I sell and sell, well surely all will turn out right?
Rich and well liked, yes, by my petard spiked.

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Three days sober.

So, not all mornings need to be endured.
Hangovers are something that can be cured.

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Being

It doesn’t take much to change a state of being.
From completely blind, to virtually all seeing

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1908 – A Dark Austrian Fairy Tale. Or is it?

It is Vienna's golden age, Franz Joseph marks his diamond year.
The Great exhibition shrouds the underbelly,

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Societal reboot

Things ain’t working right, but I guess I’ll just keep going.
Then the blue screen appears, always a near fatal warning.

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Topsy Turvy

Forward we step
Blight becomes might
Plight delivers insight
Light not night

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A little wager?

Life, to me, just an endless list of wagers, one after another?
Full of losers and winners, with so many options to cover.

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Rise of the Suffratek

We have strived for empowerment, but still equality remains elusive.
A hundred years of representation, the glass ceiling is still repressive.

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Toward Ephemerality

This message will self-destruct in five seconds.
This visual display changes, infinitely fecund.

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Rebuke to a pebble

Purpose obfuscated by the passage of time.
Uniqueness ground by the caustic maritime.

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Carousel

All these things cultivated from seed, developed to make me happy.

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Where's my drummer?

I crave all of the attention.
Me, myself and I, no censure.

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I am machine

I am efficient provider, built over years.
I am industry personified, without peers.

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Signs of Life

Queuing ahead, slow down, incident.
A forerunner of brewing malcontent.

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Know Knew Now

If knowing is all, then I know.
If knowing is now, then I knew.

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Man…tarah (reading 2)

Plutocracy of youth.
Duplicity of age.
Flagrancy of truth.
Complicity of wage.

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Storm Flower (reading 1)

This manmade calamity, we are tottering on the brink.
Failing, sliding, out of control, on a torturous ice rink.

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Induction (reading 2)

Can ingrained knowledge magically transfer without real contact?
Like inducted energy can it leap a chasm, is it charged to attract?

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INXTROVERT

Extrovert in company, Introvert in isolation
Not ambivalent, but decisive, in all my action.
Yes, play it by ear, happy in my inxtroversion.

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Walking Enigma

Are you an assassin, a vicious indiscriminate knifer.
A mis-communicator, or worse a cultured shape shifter.

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Crossroad revisited.

How many times can I do the deal, what’s left to trade?
Another slice of my life, for the promises you’ve made?

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In-to-it-if Son-it

Gaps in knowledge and complete absence
Enforce the application of intuitive talents.

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Evolution of the non-feeling

With skin flaps as blinkers, your view is fixed.
Your tear ducts are barren, crying never piqued.

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Anti-organisation

Disarray to some, unstructured order to others.
Eclectic dishevelment or is that a clever cover?

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Fishy Jock Bird Sings

Gil tells me the first revolution is when you change your mind.
Well, move over Che, because I’m changing mine all the time.

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Do stuff be complete

Do stuff, be complete

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Shabby Shite (reading 1)

How abstract this form of quaint expressionism.
Strange, this workstation viewed through a prism.

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Listen (reading 1)

Get out all of that constant idle chatter,
And the electronic buzz,

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The Jabbercock (reading 1)

Slipath follies and gogeth kooks, his hole weld thus defined.
As his high topery shreaks, zensith becomering hard to find.

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2030

Probably the best office in the world ...

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The “Monte Carlo” Gamble

Computational algorithm or holiday destination.

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The Hill

I've done my climbing, I’ve been to the summit.
No legends created, but been there and done it.

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The Jabbercock (reading 2)

Slipath follies and gogeth kooks, his hole weld thus defined.
As his high topery shreaks, zensith becomering hard to find.

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The Londoner’s Prayer

Old Father Thames, thou art clearly the boss
Please prove to me you actually give a t**s

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The meeting

At best high etiquette, listening, in a collaborative culture.

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This Morning

As I walked this morning my worries died.
As I hit the Thames, I became inspired.

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Rebuke to a pebble

Purpose obfuscated by the passage of time.
Uniqueness ground by the caustic maritime.

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Time is a flat circle

All we've done, we do again
Repeated joy, repeated pain

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Train Fodder

The brash bloke in the carriage, loudly apologises with a snigger.

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When does it stop?

Battered from every direction, surely not just me?
From text to tweet to update, why can’t they let me be?

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Leaving do

A formal moment of release.
A complete moment of peace.

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Listen (reading 2)

Get out all of that constant idle chatter,
And the electronic buzz,

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Little steps turn into massive leaps

As you track your toddler across the floor,
His first ever steps naturally lead to more.

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Loots’ Law

Statistically analysed and algorithmically sense checked,
Standard deviations done, all possible outcomes projected.

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Man Armour

Nineteen Ten, off to war, uniforms, epilates are our current de-rigour.

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Man of a certain age

Still powerfully built, but subject to aches,
Still he has just about got whatever it takes.

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Man…tarah (reading 1)

Plutocracy of youth.
Duplicity of age.
Flagrancy of truth.

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Mental health sonnet

Sick, what do mean, are you taking the piss out of me?
Fuck off, why are you worried, really, how can that be?

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Moral Compass

Let’s plan our way, orientate ourselves and navigate our trip.
Not a simple journey, a whole life through which we’ll skip.

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Sensory deprivation

It’s Monday morning, so plunge me in the tank again.
Goodbye to fun and reality, now switch on the inane.

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Opportunty

As you walk out the door don’t look behind you.
That is the past, look ahead, see all that is new.

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Organisational Science

Charles' Law
As temperature rises,
the volume of bullshit increases.

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Organisational Psychosis

Are you a corporate psychopath, sociopath or sycophant?
Worker, board-member, non-exec or business debutant.

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Password

Your key to all desired access.
Unique to you, lose it, a mess.
It is critical to user satisfaction.

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Picturesque

Neutrally coloured, average sized and painfully demure.
Face etched with lines drawn with a hard edged scale rule.

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Puddle

That puddle has splashed me again.
It is a puddle that is unconnected to rain.

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Resume

As a seed, I am embedded in the organisational womb

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My call is always important

It’s not life or death
Or a deal for crystal meth
Or a marriage split

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Shabby Shite (reading 2)

How abstract this form of quaint expressionism.
Strange, this workstation viewed through a prism.

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SOS

Architects of possibilities and creators of real pain.
Refinance, strategic choice, I am feeling shit again.

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Storm Flower (reading 2)

This manmade calamity, we are tottering on the brink.
Failing, sliding, out of control, on a torturous ice rink.

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Taking the P out of Profit

Postulate power in pompous perspiring palms.
Preceding the pursuit of poisonous profit plans.

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And so it is (reading one)

You look at me, a thousand cogs whirl in your mind.
How old is he, what does he do, his face looks kind.

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Cauterised

I bleed and I am man.
Bone and blood I am.

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Celebrate Deteriorate

Jingoism, bullsh*t, vented frustration and trash.
Much vaulted celebration, the Big Christmas Bash.

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Chronologically defined

Through eons, I have been defined, when did I ask?,

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Common Lore of London

It only ever rains when you have not got an umbrella.

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Conformist

We are natural born entrepreneurs radically stifled by process.
We are natural thinkers with corporate autism as our diagnosis.

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Contagion

Traveling in a test Tube, a stop, start, petri dish.
Exposed to full frontal viral assault, more than I wish.

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Developed or Eroded

All these laughter and worry lines are facial crazy paving.

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Diamond Shout

1895-Emotional Insanity
Munch’s insanely recognisable “Scream”

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Dictate or another trait? (reading one)

Belligerence, fortitude, stubbornness and greed
Are these necessary traits for one to succeed?

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Dynotrowel

Born in the brickolithic period and now a near extinct species,

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Fit, Fou (F..k it, F..k you)

An incessant, repetitive whisper in my mind suggests
This imbecile doesn’t know what’s in his own interest.

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I’ve Been

I’ve been too humble and too many times, foolishly rude.

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iCon

iPad then iTrain, iTube then iShuffle along.
I used to just commute, along with the throng.

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Induction (reading 1)

Can ingrained knowledge magically transfer without real contact?

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Inevitable

My low expectation, my Sod's law, is your Occam’s Razor.

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Intelligent design?

And now for the pseudoscientific.
The theory based, the non-specific.

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Jazz hands

I now sadly represent a thoroughly unsupportable stand.

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JFDI

This hapless process will never, ever, work.
On that, I would bet my reputation, my shirt.

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Juxtaposition

A new born in the arms of a grandparent.
New hope vested in something that’s spent.

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History is actually repeating itself

So my history teacher told me everything that is done has been done before.

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Doing unto others (reading one)

Really, make retribution your master and your king?
Really, consider making realised vengeance sing?

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