The Ad Agency Workers, pantoum

The Ad Agency Workers

No one wants to be here

In boxed-in solitude.

We won’t make art, we fear –

creative flow subdued.

In boxed-in solitude,

we wait here for our tasks.

Creative flow subdued,

we do just what Boss asks.

We wait here for our tasks –

the same ones as last year.

We do just what Boss asks;

why even keep us here?

The same year after year –

because this model worked.

To it we must adhere

in khakis and blue shirts.

The boxed-in solitude I'm referring to here are the cube farms office workers are confined to. When I was in undergrad, I thought I wanted to work for an ad agency, like Don Draper in Mad Men. Now, I'm glad I didn't choose that path. I do my best work in an environment with fresh air and natural light. (*With respect to office workers.) The image is one I took in Iceland. It's called Clear Thinking.

Clear Thinking