Busy Day at the Office
This is a day when I covered no ground.
Just pushed and shuffled my papers around,
Nudged at letters and winced at bills,
Sorting them out into different hills,
Hunted fretfully for a ruler,
Worried the overworked water cooler,
Sharpened pencils and filled my pen,
Then shuffled my papers around again.
Copyright Credit: Margaret Fishback, "Busy Day at the Office" from Poems Made Up to Take Out. Copyright © 1963 by Margaret Fishback. Reprinted by permission of Anthony Antolini.
Source: Poems Made Up to Take Out (D. McKay Co., 1963)