Health and Safety
They giggled at the meeting.
A first for heath and safety.
A serious issue:
Leptospirosis.
Dirty rats only carry the disease,
Canoeing and spelunking,
With clean ones is ok.
The lady was doing grand,
In the face of grown men and women
At school for the day,
Serious technical folks
Bored or torn from fee-earning work
Out for a jolly in the conference room,
Out to disrupt, and delight to deride.
The core or the soul of the issue,
Was the ladies desire to prevent harm
To her fellow man
Was there a deep hurt
Or worse a loss
Powereing her enthusiasm
Through the waves of cynicism?
Copyright © Pete Bemment | Year Posted 2011
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