Poems | WorkInWords 6/17

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Poems

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Shabby Shite (reading 1)

Loot

2016

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

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Seven Deadly habits

Dr Jenny Knight

2015

Be proactive
Get in there and act,
Don’t wait for the cue.

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Septic Stranger

Penn

2015

Sunday morning shocked to life,
high pitch tone, brain in strife.
Up and check the two wheeled steed,

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Sensory deprivation

Loot

2018

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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Scratch the scar

Loot

2020

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

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School Charms Me

Harris Tobias

2021

Gulliver among the little folk
Among the still forming inheritors of the world

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SOS

Loot

2016

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

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Roses are Red

Paul

2015

Roses are red, money is green.
Why are managers often not on the scene,
When I do the work and they take the perk?

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Room 201

Hobbs

2018

Room on the top floor.
First door on your right.
Empty.
Empty, apart from 23 chairs.

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Rise of the Suffratek

Loot

2018

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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Retirement

Harris Tobias

2021

When you’re retired and lazy and at your wit’s end
And you’re looking for something to do

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Resume

Loot

2015

As a seed, I am embedded in the organisational womb

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