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Trying to make sense of the memorandum and corporate decision making process.

September 1, 2004

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Poem: Bureaucratic Memorandum

Bureaucratic memorandums are suppost
to be understandable—
but after all these years I don't
see what they say.

I understand the terminology,
and I understand the
fears and paranoia that
govern 'em—but
they don't make a lot of sense.

To write as a professional
is to deny part of you,
bending opinion into
a bureaucratically acceptable
format.

I tell myself I will never
become a bureaucratic writer,
but as a free writer I see
much of my eyes in what
seems so repressed and denied.

There is no truth in the
bureaucratic memorandum or my
free writing—
just lies or other confusion.

Maybe there is no answers,
only freedom. Maybe we should
reject society as we know it,
and find our newselves—
somewhere and somehow.

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