Business Writing Course 3 July 2009 Poem by Margaret Alice

a Business Writing course on Monday,
laying poetry with its rhythm and
melody aside to report facts without
a lilt in the voice, without special words
of choice, following guidelines and
rules to make our business proposals
lack lustre jewels, subject, verb and
object in firm connection, short, numbered
lines and logical sequence, controlled
less colour or feeling, black and grey
correctness crowned with red tape,
love of music crucified, sacrificed on
an altar of bureaucratic expediency
and administrative efficiency, newspeak
with no loopholes for adjectives to
mess up descriptions of an hierarchy’s
perception of what reality should be
while fat cats laugh all the way to the
bank as the gravy train speeds
on its way…

3 July 2009