One small tag

 

One inoffensive asterisk or hash,

placed casually next to my name

by a nerd brain-dead civil service operator

expanding his scarce schedule into overtime

amid the rigours of sick leave and a multitude of

hard earned Union awarded lunch and coffee breaks,

and, which asterisk or hash,

removable only by the unanimous consent of

an entire hierarchy of seniority-promoted

nerd brain-dead civil service ex-key operators

expanding their scarce schedules into overtime

amid the rigours of sick leave and a multitude of

hard earned Union awarded lunch and coffee breaks,

will one day arrest my breathing

 

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