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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2008-05-26 01:28 PM

WET FINGER IN THE WIND
30 August 2006

He splashed his spleen in my face
when I was handing him
a courtesy.
Her superior Judas bones, pencil-sharpened,
and gluttonous,
ice-picked four corners of my back
in managerial support,
in spite of her having to face
the board next Thursday
for the same greed
towards her best, but equally disloyal, friend
of thirty years or more.
She ignored
his spleen and his inane, mocking cackle
dripping down my face.

- Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-05-26 06:16 PM

quote:
She ignored
his spleen and his inane, mocking cackle
dripping down my face.

Excellent, emotion filled piece of poetry, dear Diana!

Love,
Margherita

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2008-05-27 03:05 AM

Thank you, Margherita. "He" was a colleague at the time and "she" was the boss.

- Owl

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2008-05-28 03:06 AM

quote:
He splashed his spleen in my face
when I was handing him
a courtesy.

Wow! The entire poem is amazing, but the first lines grabbed me and would not let me go.

Alison

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2008-05-28 04:20 AM

Thanks, Alison. I think injustice is one of the hardest pills to swallow.

- Owl

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

5 posted 2008-05-28 09:32 AM

Whoa, there girl! Your words certainly packed a powerful bunch! I could feel them in my solar plexus and I was not even there to witness or experience such malfeasance in the workplace!

Great, impassioned write! Who knew you had it in you, m'dear l'il SA friend! lol

Now breath nice and slow ~ and have a wonderful day!

With love,
Linda

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2008-05-28 01:03 PM

Giggles, Linda! It is an old poem and I no longer work there - not because of that. Just needed to get it off my chest at the time. Big smiles.

- Owl

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

7 posted 2008-05-28 01:15 PM

I really enjoyed this nice nasty piece. Puts me in mind of my last job...grrrr..
Good work,
~H

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2008-05-28 01:27 PM

Wow, Diana! Anyone who has had to navigate the workplace would like to have written this one at one time or another. Bravo!
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2008-05-28 02:27 PM

Giggles, smiles and thanks, unboundpoetess and MarchMadness!

- Owl

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