Alex Blustin returns to give the directions for today’s NaPoWriMo prompt. He says: The prompt is Direction, but not as we know it from Patrick’s book Poetry Non-Stop. I won’t be talking about the cardinal points, but about the direction supplied by bosses. Love them, hate them or ignore them completely; line managers, directors and CEOs are as inevitable a feature of life as death and taxes. Choose a boss you have known – or even dare I say a boss you have been – and write a poem about them.
The following is dedicated to anyone who has ever worked in a team on a creative project. A lot of us have known this person; and, sadly, a lot of us have been this person at some time in our lives. The poem first appeared in issue 59 of Lighten Up Online.
The artistic director
He knows the way that he wants it to go,
Until he’s convinced that he wants something else –
Don’t doubt him! The Master is just in the flow;
He knows the way that he wants it to go;
He vacillates, wavers and bluffs like a pro,
But how does he even believe it himself?
He knows the way that he wants it to go,
Until he’s convinced that he wants something else.
First published by Lighten Up Online, Issue 59, Sep 2022:
https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/2022/issue-59-september-2022/interval-three-nine-eights
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Poetry Non-Stop 
If the prompt is Bosses then lets go straight for the big boss. Our savior… you know the man who has mined the earth for rare metals then talks about a climate crisis, the man trying to get rid of books, the man genetically modifying nature, messing with human genes, sterilisation of crops working with monsanto for profit…? Take another look at the worst man on earth. Mr Profiteer.
Satan. The BIG BOSS who told us while sipping on his tea:
“We need a vaccine….”
Bill Gates the man who sells computers,
apps to tell us if we can stop or go?
Imprisoned in our houses, parks and beaches
began to close?
His friends in Wuhan, twinned with Texas labs
brought a stink and people ran.
Already running, from Bayer- Monsanto, I pass my family
in thier lines.
Knocking on the door of Satan, to bug him for a cure..?
Matt Hancocks step father holds patents for Pfizer,
Boris Johnsons dad worked with Bill Gates parents.
In lock down restrictions David Camerons family
held a party in their own garden, 1500 people in attendance..
Do you really think they were afraid of covid! While rubbing thier blood stained hands.
These people have murdered for thier own progress, these wicked people push our grave new world.
Medazalam mixed with ventilators, did you not taste –
this blatant recipe for death…. Then it was the poisoned jabs that are killing off our many friends. Those who took the 14 jabs got covid so many times..? Those that didn’t watch TV, just got on with their lives.
Have you got the app?
The wealthiest people I know
tend to a small patch of land.
The healthiest people I know
do not own a mobile phone.
The wisest people I know
do not aid a computer.
And these old friends of mine
are the happiest pair.
Wow …. how awful. But how wonderful that those who didn’t follow Satan are healthy and well, were not glazed over by fear, have not had gene therapy. Those that took the jabs how incredibly brave, how beautifully compassionate to each other. What a shame they had not researched into Bayer-Monsanto, Pfizer, the Johnson/Gates family. Putting trust / thier bodies into the hands of the worlds worst people. Oppression now at the point that it’s under our skin. A horror show.
Fear the commies! Fear the terrorists! Now we will tell you to fear germs! These invisible threats like the old tricks of the church, just the same. Create the problem and offer the cure. So obvious, such a price to pay.
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