Welcome to WNIJ's Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. Today's poem is by Rockford Writers' Guild member, Susan Goldberg.
Goldberg has been an attorney since 1990, and is Managing Attorney for UAW Legal Services in Belvidere, Illinois. She writes for the Illinois State Bar Association and for LexisNexis. Goldberg is married to Dan Goldberg and has three adult children. The best advice she’s ever received was to read aloud to her children.
Her poem "Boss's Day Blues" pokes fun at the holiday.
Boss’s Day Blues
Isn’t it great that we all celebrate
The good fortune of having a boss?
So just to remind you,
Wherever life finds you,
It’s your boss who decrees what you do.
Just in case you forgot,
On this day you will not
Be without an occasion for lunch.
For you and your crew
Will scrape together and pool
All your pennies,
And all go in a bunch
To some tiny café
Or a food truck—hooray!
To dine with the boss side by side,
As all workers sit glumly
And the boss chuckles humbly,
You’ve all spent your year’s bonus all at once.
So, vow next year a change—
Do try to arrange to make Boss’s Day
An extra-special one…
Act now—do not tarry—
Fast as feet can you carry,
And request that you have that day off!
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