Playing At Being Die Fledermaus* Poem by Margaret Alice

I am headache-free and happy, running about
wearing my Hogsworth toga which management
magnanimously supplied all personnel as a corporate
gift; I love wearing mine and playing at being Die
Fledermaus, singing snatches from The Merry Widow*

Calling yesterday’s official to plague her into capturing
the outstanding payment (running loose since last year)
organising the retrieval of the German document, sent to
Portuguese Tony by mistake, then speedy delivery to
our freelancing Germanic translator

Trying to figure out how to work my fun sentence
into a normal conversation: Can paper tigers protect
sacred cows when loose canons hurt our cause? –
this will take some planning; imbroglio was easy to
insert, vanguard was not too bad, but this

Requires a definite plan - oh, glorious life!

* The opera “The Bat” by Johann Strauss
* Operetta By Franz Lehar