He’s been on a course managing time
You’d really think all will be fine
But when it’s time to go to tea
In his interest to ignore a plea
So full back’s fine when it suits him best
Even if it inconveniences the rest
We can struggle, die of thirst
Because we put customers first!
No flexi-time breaks for the rest of us
Plodding on without a fuss
We can’t do as we please
Only Rodney knows that wheeze!
Dulwich Poet-5th February 2013
(I wrote this in two minutes, to wind up a colleague at work. We work in a small public library. Tea breaks were late, & we were short staffed. He is notorious for not keeping time, & he had to leave me alone on the counter, which he calls being ‘fullback’ the ‘last line of defence’, like football, so to speak. He went to the Junior Library, to run a Chatterbooks group, with youngsters, He gives them sweets & soft drinks. This session was devoted to poetry, & he was giving the sweets out once they’d written something. So I handed him the above…He didn’t read it out!)
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