Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: bad business

one of the ways i’m bad at business

i was given business cards
with my job title and company logo on them,
and told to pass them out,
for business reasons, i presume,
but instead i mostly use them as impromptu bookmarks, and then forget to pass out

BAD BUSINESS

bad business ideas look like
poetry
written in the form of a legal form
made to look official by clerical errors
made out of papier-mache blocks in an endless
road
leading nowhere, because it’s not the road
to be taken, but rather the diversion necessary