Sunday, January 20, 2019
Snipes by Joan McNerney
Question: What is the difference between
God and a doctor?
Answer: God does not think he is a doctor
and does not charge for missed appointments.
God and a doctor?
Answer: God does not think he is a doctor
and does not charge for missed appointments.
Eva Jackson: 0118
Tender alerts: poem 3
The Department of Rural Dev and Land Reform
Want someone to watch them, to check them, to fawn
To pursue them, to view them, to check that they are
Of high quality, meeting some internal bar
But not like for limbo and not where you drink
A standard, you ‘stand? In their monthly lip sync,
They’ll be scored for performance, for flair, preparation –
Some guru will mark them on smart presentation.
The truth is this all may be slightly more dry
They will pay for an audit. Again, not their guy.
But how can I help you? All these people with tenders?
With needs in your eyes, services all unrendered
Like maidens bereft sending specifications
Your coy hopes expressed through inert invitations…
And sometimes, you ask for what just cannot be.
You’ve invited a bid for a crazy melee:
For Provision of the SITA Micro Organisation Placement & Migration Management Service
You shock me so badly it makes me quite nervous.
The service provider must migrate employees
To a new micro structure. I cannot appease
Such a cruel organisation. I give you my leave.
The Department of Rural Dev and Land Reform
Want someone to watch them, to check them, to fawn
To pursue them, to view them, to check that they are
Of high quality, meeting some internal bar
But not like for limbo and not where you drink
A standard, you ‘stand? In their monthly lip sync,
They’ll be scored for performance, for flair, preparation –
Some guru will mark them on smart presentation.
The truth is this all may be slightly more dry
They will pay for an audit. Again, not their guy.
But how can I help you? All these people with tenders?
With needs in your eyes, services all unrendered
Like maidens bereft sending specifications
Your coy hopes expressed through inert invitations…
And sometimes, you ask for what just cannot be.
You’ve invited a bid for a crazy melee:
For Provision of the SITA Micro Organisation Placement & Migration Management Service
You shock me so badly it makes me quite nervous.
The service provider must migrate employees
To a new micro structure. I cannot appease
Such a cruel organisation. I give you my leave.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Eva Jackson: 0117
Tender alerts: poem 2
The SETA that is boss of all the safety and security
Would like someone to monitor their grants they give to somebody.
Another university – what’s going on! – is frontin’
They need support that will assess their ICT, you bumpkin.
You can’t do it, they can’t do it, you should please just not apply
They don’t need an application from a luddite, not their guy.
I could go on, it’s lengthy. While they say they need a SWOT
They don’t mean an academic, no. At this you have no shot.
Waste water treatment, Laingville. And PPECB
Which sounds like rude-ish noises from a cherubic baby
(But probably prestigious, and I show naivete)
Are saying, that they also, yes they need the ICT!
No – they need someone who’ll tell them how to ask for ICT.
Seriously.
The SETA that is boss of all the safety and security
Would like someone to monitor their grants they give to somebody.
Another university – what’s going on! – is frontin’
They need support that will assess their ICT, you bumpkin.
You can’t do it, they can’t do it, you should please just not apply
They don’t need an application from a luddite, not their guy.
I could go on, it’s lengthy. While they say they need a SWOT
They don’t mean an academic, no. At this you have no shot.
Waste water treatment, Laingville. And PPECB
Which sounds like rude-ish noises from a cherubic baby
(But probably prestigious, and I show naivete)
Are saying, that they also, yes they need the ICT!
No – they need someone who’ll tell them how to ask for ICT.
Seriously.
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