Saturday, December 28, 2024

Special projects

 

July 2012

 

He gives her special projects

To justify what really isn’t a raise,

To justify to his partner, not to us

Who gets neither raise or projects.

He just can’t simply say, yes or not,

And dare not say now, if what goes on

Between them is really going on,

Those other special project that happen

Always behind closed doors, and to which

We are not privy, and yet, “we are all

In the same yacht,” together, too closely

Associated to now noticed and feel the ach

Of exclusion, some of us having nothing

To offer her in exchange, and so look on

With envy at those who can, though

Even he’s too scared to make it look

Too obvious, and so we all act out this fiction,

Pretending nothing goes on,

And that we are all what we seem to be on the surface,

When we are not, unable to trade favors

Or receive them, unable to keep our eyes closed

When others who do.


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