OFFICE BLUES

Glory Sasikala 1964 (Kolkata)



In the stillness
Someone coughed
Someone yawned
Boss on phone
He –
Control A
Control C
Control V
Copy-pasting
My thoughts
In his diary.
The whirring fan
My ice-cold
stare
Blank at screen
Her tinkling laughter
jarrs on my tired brain
Switch off.
Time to go home...

About this poem

free verse about time at the office.

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Submitted by glorysasikala on June 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFEEGHEIJKLMNOP
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 249
Words 47
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19

Glory Sasikala

Glory Sasikala is a writer, poet and publisher from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of GloMag, the international monthly online poetry and prose magazine, and is administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is the creator of ‘The Chennai Ladies’ series of E-books on Amazon.com. more…

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