Your Regularly Scheduled Dysfunction
This is a vent poem I finished and originally posted at the end of October after having been on a hiatus for some time last year. A vent poem about work stress and frustrations which have persisted to this year too. I’ve had a lot going but I’m also aware of how much is going on in the world so I can get if this feels a bit mundane.
Your Regularly Scheduled Dysfunction
*By: A.X. Bueno *
For all the money they have you’d imagine they could do more
To fix it whenever there’s a broken door
Which you feel happens much more frequently than it should
When automation is supposed to be the future you expect it to be good
But that’s a notion you feel you should have given up a long while ago
At this point a malfunctioning door or two is just part of the everyday flow
The elevators have an extension of this problem too
Slowed by the wind or being worked on it’s what all inside are put through
Leaving you waiting for a few minutes or sometimes considerably more
Times the long wait makes you want to shove your fist through a door
These annoyingly common building problems that adds to
The amount of waiting around and time your work takes to do
You’re not dealing with them alone but it sure can feel that way
At the mercy of wires that can worry with slow pulls, troublesome sway
And the times when they’re packed for most of the day
This includes the doors too
When they’re blocked by the person on the other side or in front of you
And with how sensitive they are
Sometimes they only shake when you push the button and don’t go ajar
Not fully anyway
And this wouldn’t be too big a problem if you didn’t deal with it everyday
Of course people don’t help when they don’t read the signs
Trying to grip the door that says not to pull so you provide guidelines
And when you have to as often as you do your patience internally dwines
After so long in a way it makes sense
Why things like the doors and elevators don’t work and struggle
But it just leaves you more things on the job to juggle
Plus it’s not all people’s fault it’s also the electronics and weather as well
You just wish things weren’t as dysfunctional for a longer spell