Arrows with solid lines represent
the statistically significant paths,
and broken lines show
the nonsignificant paths.
Explained in the Results Section,
its halogen light to snuff path
is of n.b. no hope no kindred
place behind gates a ramified lanyard,
a front desk company
finger filed red to business premises
all these unscathed plods
in utero caning the height of a crown
& how could love be a steel pergola?
& ask again, as the place you go to
clusters up over
managerial techniques
its dulling ache hushes your sacrum
tribulated in knots Programmes
secreted the Employee Support is gas
& Excellence is People Management,
& Strong Operations & O to wrangle under
Occupational Health, in the mornings gaggle
darning a light to a beautiful sky!
it narrows in eyesore of laws & symbols starpaddled
in blood,, the rest of the body,,
to work-ready & yielded examples
to enjambed frights & ribcages,
& you concur & clench both your fists
for about 15 seconds, then relax them
& feel the tension draining away
from your arm muscles.
Repeat this twice.
Hunch your shoulders for 15 seconds & relax.
Repeat twice.
Continue the same routine with jaw
clenching & relaxing. Finally, screw your eyes up tightly
& relax, feeling the tension disappear.
There.
There is no ‘acceptable’ level of sickness absence allowable
turning lifeless & life discretes
realignment to responsibilities,
adequate equipment & workplace derivatives
what unknowingly pinholes
a pickering worse upon the middle ear,
as you hear, like small bones breaking near
disciplined glue
stuck its forces betterment
beyond future scars, Epsilons
inflated from cruelties & pathic moving missives
to holds closure
by rote a joy plucked unlasting
& how to break under it
& live there
Jolyon,
I called out your voice once under a moonlit silence
a clemency pill at the base of a cache, ,
a fingering to all the hidden uncommittables,
& the communiques suffer the opposite,
a probation officers itching imperative
retracting another incentive,,
a performative review longingly turning blue
to a day bruising pill cold tarries & whisperless encirclings
the private reneges of work
& kneel at my feet ,
I swear not to giggle,
Joylon.
The results are yours, you see
stuck in the middle it's inevitable
there's no better moment of twisted clarity
when you feel the effects
in peaks like chains of lead!
O to bounce me upon your knee
People Management,
Rickety roo, Rickety ree,
Rickety roo, rickety row,
kicking two coffins of wasted bulbs
& gone social pathology under transmitted deprivations,
& failed permanently
& marched them to the left
marched them to the right
marched them all the way around
marched them out of sight
& so who counts their steps
to the tune of up goes you!
Rickety roo, Rickety ree,
Rickety roo, rickety row,
& to bounce me upon your knee
Recruitment & Operations Manager,
We wore them up, we wore them down
To please the people of the town
We wore them east, We wore them west
But we never could tell! Which we liked best!
Building. Strong. Operations.
I swear not to giggle
Employees Relation Adviser,
Faster, faster, faster
round & round & round
Then STOP!
Kneel at my feet , I swear not
to pickering in the introduction of
Performance Related Pay pipelines previously not existing.
I'm a little cuckoo clock.
Tick tock, tick tock, Stop!
Every single morning,
You & Me joy long, to
pluck & pick & thrum
as eaves begun to pull, a life
in the direction of feeling
much like our own & claim together
at once both, you in me & me in you
from Carnoustie High School,
& moral fibre, stamina & willpower druthers,
so feelings stray our lasting
breath, & inebriations twisted all but death,
& to still go on to become a successful Master Diplomat!!
& survive a crippling car accident
& marched to the left
& marched to the right
marched all the way around
marched out of sight
& again,,
bounce me upon your knee,
our knee
Employee Relations Adviser
Rickety roo, Rickety ree,
Rickety roo, rickety row,
is so private the rites which evulse,
to repeat this tantra Jolyon,
a thousand points of light
through your body cramping under skin
& wellbeing of consequence to suffer
& be Plucked your mouth to the order of:
I sometimes send emails early or late in the day but I do not expect you to respond outside working hours.
you go out in twisted versions
& inhabit as lifeless speech:
‘I'm so very sorry how this has made you feel.’
JOLYON,
to hair pulling
instructions inflict its manual
convulsed to plucked on narrows edge a thousand urges
to tear from your body policies, procedures, & practices
People Management, you hurt longingly from
Rewards & Systems a sawing motion,
your advance notification
considered vanishing to terminal hairworms
your life's last wishes
noiselessly integrated
‘sitting with….’ a cribbed ledger again
reading 10,000 pieces:
‘Health is a state of complete physical mental & social well-being not merely an absence of disease & infirmity’
& you longed to nudge at the sill,
as pushed pink slips sickle-bill to demote
the retrenchment Rapunzel syndrome
& ingurgitate the law you saw to
a Joylon law,
it's inevitable
there's no better moment of twisted clarity
me in you & you in me every night
wrassing glomholed dayitches
as matins purge to clavicles
& history is bunk of syndicates,,
labels,,in lieu of wages
a happiness not your happiness,
a sadness not your sadness
& be made treacherous demonstrations,,
inside treacherous work addendums
you in me & me in you.
