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