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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

"I Know Where the Door Is, You Little Police Academy Dropout!" - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

A Secretary-Receptionist Faces the Future -
“I Know Where the Door Is, You Little Police Academy Dropout!”

The name on the building changed again today
I must apply for my own job, they say
A smarmer wants more work for much less pay
It’s time to reconstruct my resume’

I once was great with videotape and film
And could type fifty-five words a minute
On an IBM Selectric; my skills are dim
The boy-boss taps on a plastic box - what’s in it?

For forty years I ruled the company’s ground floor -
Security, with a sneer, shows me the door