NOT OK Pomes

070720

NOT OK CORRAL

Dust has not settled.
As yet, I do not see—
have I been broken
or have I broken free?


070719

070718

COMPETENCY HEARING

How to keep work
safe from the worker
and vice versa;
that is the question.

Citing OSHA
as a relevant authority:

...regarding workplace
responsibilities,
a designated person
can never be considered
a competent one
if not given authority
to do the job.


070717

LET THE GAMES… END!

In the arena,
all the while that you are feeling violated,
mistrusted,intruded-upon,discounted,
put-down,frustrated,fool-icized,robbed,
goaded,pilloried,crushed,dismissed,
discounted,slighted,ignored,maligned,
incensed, and just plain hurt,

you suspect
your perpetrator is identically suffering
from perpetrations of your own;
that you pair in some horrid gestalt
of image, mirror, and reflection, and that
resolution, if not victory, depends on
more reflection and less of everything else,
except light.


070716

CONTROL

The more we’re right,
the freakier it gets—
for both of us.

The more we fight,
the funnier it gets—
for one of us.

[ASIDE: first line originally was: When we're uptight,]