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Recordings wanted

Perhaps you'd like to make a recording of the poems below and have it attached to the poem. I know the author would be delighted to hear your interpretation. Just record your version on your phone and email it to editor@workinwords.net. You can listen to other recordings here.

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Signs of Life

Loot

2019

Queuing ahead, slow down, incident.
A forerunner of brewing malcontent.

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School Charms Me

Harris Tobias

2021

Gulliver among the little folk
Among the still forming inheritors of the world

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Rise of the Suffratek

Loot

2018

We have strived for empowerment, but still equality remains elusive.
A hundred years of representation, the glass ceiling is still repressive.

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Retirement

Harris Tobias

2021

When you’re retired and lazy and at your wit’s end
And you’re looking for something to do

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Redundant

Humphrey

2015

A long sigh punctures silence,
Heavy with doubt and distress,

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Rebuke to a pebble

Loot

2019

Purpose obfuscated by the passage of time.
Uniqueness ground by the caustic maritime.

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Rebuke to a pebble

Loot

2020

Purpose obfuscated by the passage of time.
Uniqueness ground by the caustic maritime.

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Public Service

Navy

2015

Just a policeman in this run down town,
Where rules are made to be broken and respect ain’t around.

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Organisational Science

Loot

2018

Charles' Law
As temperature rises,
the volume of bullshit increases.

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Organisational Psychosis

Loot

2017

Are you a corporate psychopath, sociopath or sycophant?
Worker, board-member, non-exec or business debutant.

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Old Jethro

Harris Tobias

2021

Me and old Jethro were ridin’ the line
Checkin’ the fences and such

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Nurse Eleanor

David K. Gilchrist

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Florence Nightingale - a nurse - pictured in her mind the curse
Of wound uncared for, gangrened limb, soldiers lying tortured, grim.

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