Poetry Forum

I took the owl by the neck – big turnaround.
Told Jade her plunging assets where no longer
An acid burnout, that we’d have to chow down,
Divide the monkey from the man – then hang
The hair out to dry. Split some logs on Sunday,
Take aunt Bessie to the cleaners, buff her muffins
Then wait till Mungday.

She agreed.

very enjoyable camus - a corporate restructure - LOL ( quite frankly im so sick of them - in reality )

Like the way you bought in all the "animal elements" - a menagerie ? - adding to the confusion of business practice - there is a sense of this and a much needed relief when it does happen - last line is a clincher !


clever camus

Arco

This was a giggle. I can only imagine what your colleagues look like! But it does capture the confusion of work well.
I liked the idea of dividing the monkey from the man. We seem to forget all too often that we were all monkeys once and i think that contributes tpo the bedlam that is working life. Enjoyable read. Ta!

"buff her muffins" is classic. Is that the same as "polishing a turd"?

There's a senior manager here who continually refers to having a "monkey on his back" i.e. an unwelcome responsibility. However, he manages to unload most of his monkeys onto other people.

Monkey on his back, in Californian: a drug habit.

thanks doods, twas for a giggle.

This london based web hosting company got in touch with me, trying to sell me hosting, and the guy actually said "I've got a window open next Tuesday"

Fuck off, and jump out of it!

Here's me arriving late again - always the day after the fair - but I must quickly say I enjoyed this. Are these all business phrases? Blimey, I must be doing something wrong.

Sounds to me more like some sort of jazz argot - James Joyce sharing a spliff (a big one) with Charles Mingus. Good stuff anyway.

Hang cool, man. Catch you later.

David

P.S. Just stumbled, in a legal downloading sort of way, into one of your faves - Richard Hawley, Coles Corner. Wonderful.

Welcome David, I'm often a late comer myself.

And no they are not business phrases, I looked on the net for business phrases but couldn't find any, or I didn't look for long enough, so I made a few up.

Enjoy Coles Corner - all legally of course - cough cough.

cheers
Kris