Poems | WorkInWords 13/17

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Poems

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How Do We Manage?

Tannur

2016

Make space for the Civil and the Savage
In ways that take the fear away
In ways that inform our

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History is actually repeating itself

Loot

2018

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

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History Books

Navy

2015

Sit down class. Quiet Please! Right open your books to page fifty four,
Yes, I know, settle down,

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Help for the task

David K. Gilchrist

Lord, You have set us to this task: Now work through us, is all we ask.

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Have I got Dementia?

SH

2018

I'd like to show my friend my room,
Where is my room?
Which number is it?

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Freshman Blues

Seryianis

2018

Imagine the duress,
new student searching

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Fly

Amanda Sterzick

Meetings, appointments, deadlines come.
Projects, artwork left undone.

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

Loot

2015

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

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Fishy Jock Bird Sings

Loot

2019

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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F**k the open plan office

Morrison

2016

Today I'm really busy.
Have lots of things to do.
I'm really very focused.

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Extended Abstract

Jeffery

2019

I found an equation that approximates my work pattern during my PhD: f(x) = x²sin(x)².

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Evolution of the non-feeling

Loot

2019

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

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