Saturday, October 4, 2014

When Loving Your Job is Like Joining a Cult

The Corporate Personality
by Rachel Hoyt

image by stockimages via freedigitalphotos.net

It's all for one - a single goal:
endear our product to your soul.
We found it was love at first sight.
We know that you'll see we were right.
We sometimes work from dusk to dawn
(if you count camp outs on the lawn).
We love rare beats and ethnic foods
and how emoji boost our moods.
We hate to wear our shoes indoors
(and thus also hate cold tile floors).
We banned memos, don't use voicemail,
and have greeters who wag their tails.
A family, we grow as one -
each bullets in a loaded gun.

Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


Some say the "best" way to build a small business
is to act like a cult leader and embrace prejudice.


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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Religion Is About Faith, Not Knowledge

The Be in Believe
by Rachel Hoyt

image by nuchylee via freedigitalphotos.net

There's no need to study -
Just pray and repeat.
The wavelengths are steady,
Listen to the beat.

You'll feel in your bones that
You now know it all,
Once ritual's rat-a-tat
Breaks down your heart's wall.

Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

about religions other than the one whose wisdom we choose to drink.


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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Some Can't Afford to Sleep

Nap for Hope
by Rachel Hoyt

image by BimXD via freedigitalphotos.net


It comes at you while you're awake -
The American Dream.
Inside your lids, the world looks fake,
Just roses and sunbeams.

With just one nudge, it vanishes,
Engulfed by dollar signs.
The time clock's ticking banishes
The dream for which hope pines.

8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest,
8 hours for your free will?
That's just a goal. (It's not a jest.)
Still, one must pay the bills.

Cherish the moments in between,
When you can nap for hope.
A moment in that serene scene
Will boost your will to cope.

Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


The lowest paid workers need three to four jobs just to survive.
They can't afford to sleep and live lives busier than a beehive.


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