The Executive [2] (Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

I am an executive and my position has been affirmed
from that of a cleaner, driver and delivery man
where at those tasks I once squirmed
and that was before the great freedom began,

but now I order my subordinates around
while sitting in my office all of the day
and I do confound them, with my knowledge that is profound
and on television watch my soccer team play.

You ask me about my job, it's quite simple.
I get other people, especially the ones of European decent
to do the job, to work and if they don't, I squeeze them like a pimple
until they go off the bent or all their energy is spent:

I am the boss, a man who watches other people work until five,
after that I watch the sun, my three wives and drink and jive.