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Showing posts with label bosses at the top. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bosses at the top. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2023

The Boys at the Top


 


Birds on Wires

After work, after the business of life, the team had been eager to settle at the nearest watering hole. It had been a rough day.

Hey, Jim. How did the office manage all that blow back from the big guys up at the top?
   
"Well, you can imagine, Tom. It blew them all away. I mean, what did they expect when the stink settled down after the clean-up crew took care of the rot?"

Again, all nodded. The fifth co-worker, Kevin piped up. "I'm exhausted. We complain every day. Can't do anything about them. They can take us down without a thought."
 
  "Big guys at top? They live well, really well. I mean they go to work in their spiffy black suits,
"Big guys at top? They could eat us alive, or dead."
 
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They grumbled and took off for home where family and friends lived. Come sunup, they would be at work. At sundown, they would be lined up again. 

The big bosses were already singing together their raucous out-of-tune songs. In their black suits and ties, they smiled at their success.

Silently, the crew left, singing songs of their own,
sweet songs.
Bosses of the sky, bosses of the trees 
They stayed.

Crows Swarming Pennsylvania Street
The bosses in black suits
Singing raucous songs, non-stop songs
 
This is a repost of 2019 post. The blackbirds are swarming about, singing. I wonder what they are saying.

Monday, September 2, 2019

Working on the Chain Gang

Carmine Persico in September 1986 at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan. Three months earlier he had been found guilty of charges that he was the leader of a vast criminal enterprise. In September he was convicted of additional racketeering charges and sentenced to 100 years in prison, raising his combined sentences to 139 years.
Who is the Boss? I am, oh yes, I am.
After work, after the business of life, the team had been eager to settle at the nearest watering hole. It had been a rough day.

Hey, Jim. How did the office manage all that blow back from the big guys up at the top?

"Well, you can imagine, Tom. It blew them all away. I mean, what did they expect when the stink settled down after the clean-up crew took care of the rot?"

"You guys, give it a break. Life never changes for those guys who settle at the top." Co-workers mumbled, nodding in agreement. 

"Big guys at top? They live well, really well. I mean they go to work in their spiffy black suits, leave in their spiffy black suits." Jim growled.

Again, all nodded. The fifth co-worker, Kevin piped up. "I'm exhausted. We complain every day. Can't do anything about them. They can take us down without a thought."

They grumbled and took off for home where family and friends lived. Come sunup, they would be at work. At sundown, they would be lined up again. 

The big bosses were already singing together their raucous out-of-tune songs.


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After work, relaxing and complaining
Silently, the crew left, singing songs of their own,
sweet songs.

Crows Swarming Pennsylvania Street
The bosses in black suits
Singing raucous songs, non-stop songs
Bosses of the sky, bosses of the trees
Otis Redding: Working on the Chain Gang