Pecking Order
no matter who you are
what you do or not do
where you came from
as night staff
you are swimming with the fishes
morning arrives just as chatter comes through the door
of juices undelivered and lunches incorrectly ordered
naps and families and where are his dentures
none of my concern anymore
but missed
and i wonder
if my work is only filler
to pass the wee hours
for no flowers or boxes of chocolates
appear on our desk
and everything you do is invisible and undone
how silly of me not to know that
incentive programs
only run in daylight
that’s a better description for us
vampire fishes
so invisible
people, especially managers, hardly even know we exist
except for those we turn
and clean and feed
funny how chocolate milk
goes missing in the middle of the night.
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I loved this…
yeah! I’m glad someone did.
i have all these thoughts. and it seems not quite right to put them into whole sentences but then as a “poem” they seem to have no structure, they just do or do not sound right to my ear as an expression of something I feel.
thanks love.