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Go On a Business Trip (Free verse) by abecedarian Brazil, France, Germany, Japan
Spent several days each place
To feel each in turn to feel the others
No vacation
I was on a business trip
Auf Geschäftsreise
That what business may lead
To know thyself
To know the rest
Brings stronger allies
New markets to explore
A vision of the future
And you within it
Forget vacation
A broken promise in waiting
Go on a business trip instead
And you will come back
New
Up the ladder:
Limmerick, Starring Andy
Down the ladder:
The spinning infirmary
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Posted: October 22, 2003 11:21 AM PDT; Last modified: October 22, 2003 11:21 AM PDTWeighted score: 6.3762455 Overall Rank: 809 Comments:
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<{Baba^Yaga}> @ 24.126.113.154
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22-Oct-03/3:06 PM
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I've never done one really. At least as far as the left brain's definition of one goes.
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abecedarian @ 164.67.82.153
> <{Baba^Yaga}>
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22-Oct-03/3:15 PM
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I think your right brain's left ear is more attune to my intent here.
I know how you feel, I am always jet-setting around the globe: Huddersfiled, Slough, Tunbrige Wells... Boy, it never ends.
Me too. I had to go to Slough last week. I have to go to Northampton tomorrow.
Have you seen the "Crap Towns" website? http://www.craptowns.com/html/frontsecti "If a town if best described by it's people, then Leicester is a large drunk man throwing chicken burger wrappers into the street."
Hmmm. I think the pressed shirt imagery is enabling a more literal read than I intended.
'To what business may lead to know thyself, go on a business trip'. This poem is meant as the aquisition/appropriation of a tidy concept with the subsequent fragmentation and repackaging into a marketable value added product.
Stop stealing from Dilbert!!!! Or Bob the dinosaur will appear and give you a wedgie. :)
Thats certainly how I read it, so the poem has certainly done its job(to follow on your metaphor)
Nice little moral of the story there at the end, I know what you mean.
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