I wanted to do something fun today. I didn't follow a prompt, but I decided to take a phrase that is often said at my job, "A plan for Every Part." It's and initiative and it is something that my executives demand action by us lowly peons. So, I played with this phrase and out came a homage to business language.
A Plan for Every Poem
Take a ruler and measure the worth of a poem.
Use charts and graphs with metrics that can gauge
success from point A to point B.
Map with a line chart the curve of knowledge.
Find your KPIs and data points that matter,
dissect the root cause and find your corrective action.
If you fail, continuously improve, hold a meeting,
but don’t talk about the poem, discuss what needs
to be discussed, look upset and disgruntled,
demand action, but remain professional.
Ensure that your project will succeed
so you can include it on your résumé.
Write goals and meet deadlines and all the while
forget about the poem, but keep it in the back of your mind,
the poem is a statistical anomaly that disrupts your data.
You hold a meeting to decide whether or not
the anomaly needs to be discluded, it doesn’t make sense.
The consensus is to remove the poem.
You eliminate the poem, but after hours
when everyone else has left for the day,
you put the poem back, just to visualize
how it distorts the data into something
unexplainable.
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Awesome. Reminds one that poetry is exactly the opposit of "yelling at the cloud."
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