The suits are girded, rallying the troops <br />with power-point displays at Monday’s meeting, <br />explaining how a five-year fiscal “oops” <br />resulted in last week’s employee bleeding. <br /> <br />The room, half-full, was packed a week ago <br />when he appeared with earnest reverence, <br />and then on Friday glumly showed to show <br />employees to the door with severance; <br /> <br />but here today survivors line the room, <br />nodding and smiling with a false enjoyment, <br />and he holds court within the conference tomb <br />as last week’s cuts line up at unemployment.<br /><br />David Nelson Bradsher<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-halves-and-half-nots/
