I’ve just posted this to the Modern Evil Podcast, so you can listen to me read it, but I think it might work better on the page than read aloud. I just wrote it last night, so it isn’t much edited, polished, and isn’t titled, but as I mentioned before, I’m feeling pressure about falling short of my podcasting … so, here’s a new poem:
I’ve taken on a job
I am both
loathe to do &
wish were already done,
a job I am more than capable of
lowering myself
and my standards
and my
productivity on
my own work
to accomplish.
To do what I’ve been avoiding
Working for someone else
Building a generic
corporate
clone of a site
Learning all that e-commerce
bullshit
Sitting through meeting
after meeting
after meeting about it
Waiting for groupthink
All in the midst of my own crippling
depression.
All instead of anything I’m interested in.
(If I were to give the opposite of
an Ignite Presentation
(Talk about your passion!)
I might talk for five minutes about
modern web development.)
Troubleshooting the irrational behaviour of someone else’s CSS
/* Professionally-developed CSS */
frustrates.
I take long breaks.
I’m confident that with 8 good hours
I could show more results than their
last year’s work.
But there are so few
good hours
right now I’ll be lucky
to get 8 good hours all week.I’ve taken on a job.
I wish someone else would.
—Teel McClanahan III
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