Lessen Lessons

Less is more the memo implies

by the sagacious bean counter scribes

who take our shrinking client base,

which they claim is declining

even though our volume of work

mysterious keeps going up,

but we have to reduced the excess cost

in order to offset decreased profit

even though the executives

keep adding to their perks.

 

It is all lesson is lessens,

where the only thing

that really gets cut back

until it barely functions

is our energy from being overworked

as our benefits go on a diet.

 

Perhaps I’ll eventually be grateful

for the times of corporate justified downsizing

when the only thing really constrained

comes as our shriveled spirit of morale.