The Robyn Williams Encounter
...Early 90s a friend of mine was some kind of Teamster working on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City. I was in town visiting and invited out one day to the set of some stupid show but I met William De...
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Categories:
execs, funny, inspiration, power, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Departure Time-Slip
...On rows of chairs
heads bark orders at invisible underlings,
sharp suited mid-level execs
power into conference calls.
The more gleaming the sky-palace
the skuzzier I feel,
the duller the yel...
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Categories:
execs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
New Dawn
...New Dawn
Darkness at the edges of my vision
Blurred as time erases contours of the past
The evoked is as sharp as a lone tree on a hill
The dark shadows at the foot of the mountain.
The lo...
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Categories:
execs, beach, blessing, childhood,
Form: Ballade
Grand Poo-Bah
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She struts out of the golden elevator
like the Grand Marshall of Macy’s Thanksgiving parade
Crystal high-heels rhythmically clicking
on the gleaming marble floor
Pompadour bouffant hair
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Categories:
execs, character, identity, image, woman,
Form: Imagism
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
...One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats wor...
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Categories:
execs, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Losing Nachos
...I fly JetBlue for their snacks, TV's
And lots and lots of flights.
Doritos is my favorite snack,
Providing yummy bites.
The flight attendant just revealed
That, in this airline venue,
These N...
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Categories:
execs, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The City's Breath
...As corporate execs rub their hands together
In greedy glee on seats of plush leather
The man on the street smells the breath of the city
Whilst the man in the tower thinks himself quite witty
As ...
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Categories:
execs, change, city, irony, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
No Intend Offend; Intend Ascend
...High-frequency T.V.'s and Mp3's-
fortune five-hundred execs
getting high on profit specs,
and migratory bird disease.
We live in a time where
teenage single mothers still have sex,
and the m...
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Categories:
execs, angst, education, life,
Form: Quatrain