The suits are girded, rallying the troops
with power-point displays at Monday’s meeting,
explaining how a five-year fiscal “oops”
resulted in last week’s employee bleeding.
The room, half-full, was packed a week ago
when he appeared with earnest reverence,
and then on Friday glumly showed to show
employees to the door with severance;
but here today survivors line the room,
nodding and smiling with a false enjoyment,
and he holds court within the conference tomb
as last week’s cuts line up at unemployment.
David Nelson Bradsher
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-halves-and-half-nots/
