I’ll look at this again in the AM. Feedback?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Career Advice
Welcome aboard.
First, orientation:
this place is big, a brick
house with no funk.
Next, code of conduct:
You would not believe how easy it is
to not speak to anyone here — just let them talk
and they’ll barely notice you.
Stay one step ahead of the boss in terms
of your computer savvy
and you can play God
indefinitely.
Lunchtime: try a salad and an antipsychotic
chased with pure spring water. Save a
Diet Coke for later, when you will need
the caffeine to help scrape together a little attention.
The bar across from this building is another world.
You will need a special suit to breathe in its atmosphere.
The creatures there use camouflage and mimicry to stay alive.
The grim men you see haunting the conference rooms
after marketing meetings and training classes
live on leftover brownies and stalled ambitions.
They own the sports cars at the fringes of the parking lot.
In other places, they would call them ghosts.
Do not let them touch you.
No one you work for will ever return your love,
even if they say that they do.
Do not allow yourself to pretend they will,
even for a second. They will only know you’re leaving
when you turn in your badge,
but if you work here long enough,
you won’t need the badge at all,
because everyone will know you.
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before,
so we already know everything we need to know
about you.
Dark Matter 
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I like this. The ending stanza is great – the “we” that does not include the “you” of the poem –
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I really like where you’re going here, Tony.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Do you destroy poems you don’t like, do you abandon them (i.e., “poems are never completed, only abandoned), archive them, or put them somewhere you can come back to them months and years later?
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Really? I think there’s a lot of great stuff here. I love the way it ends; it kind of gave me a quiet “oof” kind of feeling in the stomach. Particularly poignant to me, I think, because I’m so close to switching jobs.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Thanks.
Funny — on reading it this morning, the only think I still like is the sports car imagery.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Ghostly, that was exactly the word I was going to use, but someone beat me to it.
You might work in something about the Bar being one of those hazmat facilities, artificial smiles and drug-induced coverups making it possible to labor, but I don’t think so.
It’s pretty solid, I think.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.
March 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
I like this line especially:
Everyone already does know you, in fact;
we seem to remember you,
as if you’d worked here before
The poem has a sort of ghostly feel to it, which I think works very well.