Confuses Me More Than Clarifying Anything Poem by Margaret Alice

Blast! Damn and Blast – I need a course on
compiling a production sheet – working out
exactly how many minutes were lost in
running down the passage to the fax machine

how many hours were spent in sharpening
minute-writing skills in interminable meetings
where I added the bonus of practicing poetry-
writing skills also – by writing in the margins

and how many days were lost in doing
administration – the snow-drifts in my office
must be a dead give-away – and how many
days were lost to private activities –

that would account for most of my days, I’m
afraid to say; though I did the work that’s
required and pushed in my own things between
the cracks that exist in getting from A to B

and looking up terms on Google – though that
mostly confuses me more than clarifying
anything…