make it so
everything’s complicated
everything’s a struggle
have you noticed?
it’s a psychological horror
is this the ‘adult disillusionment’ I keep hearing about?
I mean, things work, if you sit on them like an egg—
If your mother things along and helicopter a result.
I mean, what do people do who don't have my resources and sunny disposition?
I get America’s increasing paranoia but I
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Categories:
competence, anxiety, business, corruption, humor,
Form: Free verse
At Least It Was Diverse, Part Ii
...I was working construction jobs,
there was a big job for the trains,
to replace an old viaduct
that shook in the wind and the rain.
The government gave money and
put strings on it, that’s what they do,
wanted to ensure diversity
in the engineers and the crew.
They especially wanted women,
to boost their numbers up in STEM,
problem was when we went
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Categories:
competence, discrimination, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
At Least It Was Diverse, Part I
From the top came a directive,
a line that management rehearsed,
they needed money, more ESG,
and said we must be more diverse.
So they hired some new people,
and I did interviews for days,
noticed a lot of folks fell short,
but they hired them anyway.
Bragged about it on the website,
hoping to stay with the zeitgeist,
but when a huge new project
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Categories:
competence, discrimination, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Trump Lacks In Competence
Trump Lacks in Competence
Looks like Trump lacks in competence;
All the results on us has been intense;
Lost his way;
Did go astray,
While we determined that he is dense.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
competence, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Competence
Hey demons, you can't conquer me
Chaos is away now
It's the light that shines
Inculcate this,that you are gonna be No more.
It's not a war
There are no bloodsheds
It's just the expulsion,all of a sudden
Get ready to be smothered to ashes.
To the moon and back,here comes power
And these notions are not froths
It's the steel from the
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Categories:
competence, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse