Today's Poem: Fill My In Tray, Baby (Blues Analogy #1)

Fill my In Tray, Baby,
Fill my In Tray all night long:
Fill it till it overflows,
Fill it good and strong...

Deliver me your Action Plan
As far as you are able,
Handle my objections -
And let's get them on the table..

Cascade your information
Till my system cannot cope,
Then slide your urgent document
Into my envelope..

Today's Poem : The Secret Lives of Gloomy Writers

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
sure knew how to get the beats in!
He liked Hip Hop, he liked Soul,
And stayed up late
to Rock' n' Roll.

Jean Paul Sartre, Franzis Kafka
Stagger through the morning after:
When other people crash and yawn,
They'll party on until the dawn..

When Sylvia Plath's behind the mike,
You can shake your booty all you like,
Then just 'round midnight
 Old Ted Hughes
 Will melt the soles of your blue suede shoes...

It's the secret lives of Gloomy Writers
Come on down and wave your lighters!

Today's Poem : The New Stonehenge

 

A long-lost mystic ley-line spawned
A miracle of birth...
An enigmatic structure rose
From deep within the earth...

It seemed to happen overnight
While planes flew overhead,
It's no new retail outlet, though...
It's something else instead..

Perhaps it meets an ancient need -
A kind of cure, no less?
In a dismal hub of commerce
Filled with travellers stuffed with stress..

"The cost of living is too high,
My plane has been delayed...
I long to link with moon and stars
In a sunlight-dappled glade...

To dump my briefcase by the road
And leave my phone behind...
And dance around with nothing on
And liberate my mind...

To join a long-lost pagan tribe...
Escape these dull commuters...
Delete these wretched spreadsheets
And set fire to my computer....!"

While cynics may declare the site
A modernist revenge,
True Druids flock from miles around -
"Behold....The New Stonehenge! "


















(with sincere thanks to the developers at Leeds Bradford Airport for building...whatever THIS is....)