Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

When decreed our Performance Agreements
be frequently updated, did they really mean
thrice annually, with obsolete parts rewritten,
plus a plan for things to be left undone?

It doesn’t figure in anyone’s actual routine
accord – and since I don’t want to be here –
although I can’t think of a place where I can
have as much fun when my colleagues are

Done working and we can play – we already
do 90% of the administration in Agreements
rewriting and only 10% actual work accord,
yet all seem patiently calm and very busy

It is as if I am the only one to have read this
hopeless memorandum and understand the
odious import of it; so let me complain under
my breath – and let sleeping dogs lie