'Good To Be Bad 08/11/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

I’m reading a fairy tale I got
from my dad, he told me the
story beforehand, Polyanna
and Daddy-Longlegs
combined

I told him how I battle at work
trying to concentrate on the
mundane with the brain I
got from him; he always
changed jobs

I explained how making lists
creates the desire in me to
break nonsensical rules as
he used to do; he said he
always resigned

After breaking the rules – but
I have been a Government
official for twenty years, with
my inheriting criminal
ideas from him

And inability to suffer boredom
from mom - she changed jobs
every five years, I vainly try to
focus on routines and
statistics

But it might be good to be so bad
Jack the Ripper killed disadvan-
taged young women, in this
way he made society aware
of their plight

Which led to social reform, maybe
my inability to make lists, follow
rules, will also lead to reform;
management might realize
they are creating

Hell on earth...