Typed Word Series

Bits & Pieces

cords dangle from your arms

hefting and shuffling

you clasp a laptop

a mix of casual awareness

for you've done this year after year

from one meeting

     to the next

yet just below that casual swing

is a layer of fear

that white knuckles your heart

at the possibility,

nay the inevitability,

of dropping the plastic & bits

and watching it all go to waste

because the worth of you

to your boss and boss' boss

is not your talent

nor the breadth and scope

of a mind bored to death

but rather the culmination

      of a million keystrokes

     jumping from one task

     to the next,

          without a thought caution

          just a less obstinate horse

          trudging where it must

          for it must!

          the bit punishes resistance

               by tearing

               by biting

and without that history,

what are you?

bits and pieces,

without a story to tell

7/17/14