hubris
Corporate America Style
within is an echo of Love America Style
an for that he hoped whoever was connected with it would indulge an forgive
him his vulgar intransigeant mirroring the
two
he could only speak of American hubris which galled him although he was very sure that no matter what
language Corporate spoke their hubris an
manner would be alike fucking an
American woman wasnt unlike fucking a Greek Irish Italian or Scandinavian woman
Corporations were stringently
alike they attracted the same cut of person no matter what language they spoke
for most of his adult life he eluded
playing in their sandbox his memory informing
him wrinkling its nose screwingup its face reminding him how feral cats loved to piss an
shit in neighbourhood sandboxes
then with the best clothespin he could find
pinching his nose shut he took a job with a small one big or small
didnt matter same kind of big
brains feeding off of one another
originally he likened corporateits
upper echelon to a circle jerk
however when his youngest called an laughingly told
him she saw a flick the night before The Human Centipede ohsoripe for retread
he immediately dropped circle jerk an adopted centipede gooblegooblegooble didnt have to
worry about chewing its food or choking on it
even then twenty years ago corporate didnt think or believe they had to
watch their Ps and Qs
his small corporation got bought
out
management was surprised didnt
see it coming
myopic centipede
now Corporates really developed a
culture its gatekeepers online ask questions
relating to it rather than ones abilities
centipedes
years later he finally snuck in
through a back door an was offered a parttime gig
he acceptedhe felt they could survive
one another parttime
he went into work last Thursday
an read a post that there was to be an all-employee sales meeting Sunday morning
Seven AM March 11
he didnt have access to a manager
then or since
he wasnt aware if the decision was
local management or down from centipede
if it was local he thought the
infection had run deeper than he knew
it was obvious Two AM March 11
was Daylight Savings Time Spring
forward Two AM becomes Three AM an a Seven o’clock meeting for all intents
and purposes though
centipede might prefer for all intensive purposes
is a Six o’clock meeting
then the cherry atop the sundae
was that he had to take 2:46 minutes to watch a sales video where GM Kyle
enunciated corporates new scheme of Have Three
suggesting to a customer one you really love but having two backups two options
GM Kyle grinned over the one he
loved of Have Three he grinned for
awhile though never offered a second or
third choice
it was a video!
either GM Kyle and the videomaker
thought it was so goodgetting it done in one take an they made no mistakes which makes sense or
cleverly GM Kyle leering over his first choice was insisting his first choice was also his
second and third choices
ah Corporate centipede if you
listen real hard you
can almost hear its nails skitter on the walls an pause as it rubberybends
itself over to hide its head up its butt completing the circle
its what one hubris looks like
0044 and 1144, Monday,
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