Sunday, January 9, 2011

Poetry Bus Is All About Revenge




Dumb And Dumber


 There once lived a lady quite jobless
Accepted an offer, felt so blessed
A title, desk, business cards too
Livin' the good life .. she pulled off a coup

Didn't take long for the lady to learn
Co-workers were chatty .. rumor mill churned
Seems the owners marched to the beat of their drummer
Known near and far as the Dumb and the Dumber

No chance for that lady
Utterly naive and so trusting
In time she would learn
They were truly disgusting

No work ethic to mention
Lazy, pompous and pretentious
Their workplace was toxic
They were really obnoxious

But she needed the income
First rule of thumb
Never leave a job without having another
Best advice tendered by her very bright mother

Look for another while taking their money
A brilliantly simple solution
 Dumb and Mr. Dumber slogged through each day
In a perpetual state of fog-brained slow motion

Then came a day when they pulled her aside
Escorted her into their smarmy man-space
Began their short speech with expressions so phony 
Recited these words to her crestfallen face

"You are like a big blob of soft gooey jell-o
No ball of fire and woefully mellow
If we tossed you against that wall where you stand
It's any body's guess just where you might land"

It didn't take long to land on her feet
A bit worse for the wear but with psyche intact
She sucked up her pride forgave her own blunder
Learned in due time Dumb and Dumber went
UNDER!!!!

16 comments:

  1. This could be a "story" of life, we can't know, what we don't know. And these are just lessons. Maybe Mr. Dumb and Mr. Dumber were in on "it" all along, helped you on your way, lot's smarter!

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  2. Hi Helen, Nice rhymes there and nice self-deprecation.
    Links now up at here

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  3. Oh, have I been there....let's see - I was about 20 hrs old. And that rejection ended up being the best thing for me. They were foolish to let you go!

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  4. People can be so foul! Glad you got away from them!
    x

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  5. Dumber and Dumb, Helen wrote,
    Were probably born to a goat!
    How stupid they were
    To show her the door!
    So nice to be able to gloat!

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  6. excellent is right, places like that can't expect to last!!

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  7. Toxic people! Can't live with 'em.... and that's all she wrote.

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  8. A fitting end!!! for D&D. Glad she got out
    "with her psyche intact"
    Love the rhyme.

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  9. You've worked for the Seattle Symphony?

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  10. politely put i laughed my patootie off !

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  11. Hell is other people - sometimes. this time!

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  12. Dear Helen,
    As I am working with Zombies at the moment, I call this a large sign of HOPE!!!

    Thank you!
    Ann T.

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