loomings

It takes a professional actor 

Or reader almost 30 hours to read 

Moby Dick. 

So I’m ok with it taking me some time. 

Yesterday, Stubb was telling the cook

How to make his steak.

And the way the conversation was described 

Is  exactly how most bosses

Order people around. 

Like they’re bat shit crazy. 

This bosses. Not the subordinates. 

Contested Electoral College 

And a bloody battle in Afghanistan. 

Some things never change.

In another place in the book, 

Ishmael was making the point 

That the harpooners

Don’t need to row

-They need to rest-

 Because they need their strength

 for actual harpooning. 

But the bosses disagree. 

And even though

One little change 

 would make a vast difference-

No one higher up listened. 

Just like in today’s workplace. 

‘Twas Ever Thus

Had a cup of coffee 

I miss coffee. 

Immediately after- heartburn. 

Trying to help out now and then. 

Kids and schools. 

The way things are nowadays 

The people who help are punished. 

I always liked the extras of home health. 

My life in one picture.