Women have begun to flourish in the past forty years.
They are taking honors in directing, publishing, and writing.
They are fearless in showing their voices.
Women are not content to sit back and allow others to live.
They are grabbing a little gusto for themselves
Feeling they have earned it, and they are correct.
Women are on almost equal footing with men now.
My granddaughter played football this year on an almost all boys’ team
I was not crazy about that, but I admired that the team welcomed her.
Women are vice presidents and presidents of corporations.
Women are on the front lines during battles.
Women are free for maybe the first time ever
Free to be the best person they can be,
And free to build up their men and their children
Free to live
Release your taxes, no previous guilty verdicts,
No trail of stiffed creditors, no history of predatory
Sexual activity, no bullying or name calling,
No negative opinions of people of color or
Preferential opinions of white nationalist organizations,
No obvious lying, no golfing when you can't play
Without cheating, no cheating on your wife,
No picking homophobic vice presidents,
Must have a college writing and reading level,
No accusing or insulting falsely sitting presidents,
Hero senators or opponents, must have a sharp
Memory and no bone spurs, don't hire the
Best of the best that turn out to be the worst of the worst,
No setting policy that hurts America, don't hate those
Who don't do your illegal bidding and like those
Who kiss your ass, can't be a hypocrite and you can't
accuse the media of fake news when you have been fake all your life.
The Automated Answering Service
By Elton Camp
What I used to be able to do, now I can’t
If I called and got a person, think I’d faint
This voice gives a list of number to punch
And it’s not just a few, but a big bunch
When I finally guess at which one to pick
It always bring the very same inane trick
All agents are busy with others to help
Whenever I hear that, I just want to yelp
Please hold as we answer in the order received
That’s something that’s really hard to be believed
Repeatedly I hear the recording of some ornery cuss
“Please keep on holding. Your call is important to us.”
If that were true, then more agents they would hire
Even if a few of their vice presidents they had to fire
In view of how long completion of those calls can take
I wonder if the Guinness Book they are trying to make
you can't have a security company without having security guards
for it's those dedicated men and women who are the company's heart
how many vice presidents do you need who only sit in meetings?
how many receptionists are required to answer the phones and give greetings?
how is that the secretaries get a paid vacation every years?
but the security officers only get the blood, the sweat and the tears
divaism, nepotism and favoritism are the current trends
it's not about how well you do your job but who are your friends
bump schedules, no sick days and no paid lunch hours
it's time for us to unite and start exercising our power
we need to come together in cohesiveness
and show them that we won't settle for anything less
to be treated with respect, to be treated like human beings
for the company to show some empathy and not the disdain we keep seeing
we're not asking for a lot, we just want our fair share
for you can't have a security company without the security guards being there
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