Blargh, behind on the times, as per usual

[darkelf105]

It's national poetry month. It's been national poetry month for awhile. Usually I start this month by writing a crappy poem and posting it and then for the rest of the month post poems by others that are far superior to mine as the whim takes me. There will be no torture from me this month, I shall write no new poems. You can cry happy tears of joy. However, here is a poem by some one else which I enjoy, for the snark, for the social commentary, for the exsistential sadness of modern life.


The Meeting  


hello. my name is ned &

i will be your facilitator

thank you for coming. we

are grateful for the distance

you have traveled & the thinking

you have brought

to this meeting. the restrooms

are to the right for men & to

the left for women



our topic today certainly

reververates but before i say

that let me say we will be talking 

in the following manner: i will talk

some of you will talk, i will record

faciliatate & manipulate your

conclusions to my needs



which, i'm glad to say, are yours

but first, please introduce yourselves

to everyone by giving your name 

affiliation, & the single, most salient

feature of your being . thank you




please keep all your remarks 

brief. i will be very strict

about this. we have very little time

so don't repeat anything you've

heard or read. & now, let's hear 

from you. but first i see

that my director is here



thank you ned. i'm grateful

for the distance that you have come

we here value your values &

experiences. i won't take much

of your time because you don't have

much but i do want you to know

how much we value your thoughts

& the distance you have come

thank you. ned? thank you director



& now we're going to hear from 

you. but first i want to prioritize

our conceptualizations during our

group face mail so we can

recontextualize them & calenderize

our interactive, proactive actualizations

on an ongoing basis, thereby repurposing

our core redundancies. but first




i see lunch is here


A.B. Spellman from Things I Must Have Known


 

Comments

[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

OMG! That was hilarious! And it proves that you have spent far too many wasted hours being "facilitated" as well. Found your blog through a writing search, and was too entertained to pass by without comment. Nicely done.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Lol, glad to see some one was amused! And yup, way too much of my time has been wasted in meetings having other people tell me to "shift my mindset" and "creatively energize my work life". Sometimes, I feel that language has been wasted on these people.

[jetthomasboat.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a National Poetry Month. Neato.