Crosswords
July 18, 2024
"Crosswords? You'll find nary a cross word here,"
The director explained to me,
"We wouldn't have a clue.
We're more of a word search crowd,
Our chosen team activities:
You know, tell them what the words are,
Ask them to pick them from the morass
Of misleading symbols surrounding them.
Or, perhaps, they sign up to connect the dots
To reveal a hidden theme.
Where we sail, there is no depth.
We promote a laid-back cruise, you see."
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I was disturbed by what I'd signed up for,
Couldn't believe what I would see,
Or more likely never see.
My questions launched at a field of white fear:
"Would we stop at intersections
Where two ideas must cleanly check?
Would we have opportunities
To get a point across
Or to follow down a motif?
Where would be the symmetry,
Commitment to an overall design?
In short, sir, how far do you go off the grid?"
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Mein Direktor merely shook his head,
And tore my ticket in half:
"It's clear you do not understand
The modern way we work.
Cross words are just curse words
And have no place on our decks.
We have no need for you intellectual types
With your wordplay arcane and tricky,
Leave us be, let us be
As we point our ship to sea."
This is how I ended up, a dock
With no berths to fill.
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