A Good Manager Closes the Loop

Someone gets a few things done,
Celebrates by sitting down—
The pause, the coast, the moment

Unscheduled and unmeaning
As a spreadsheet’s next clean page.
Can’t we ever get a trope

For relaxing, a deep breath,
That isn’t based on some tech,
Some task, some occupation?

No, we can’t. Technology
Is all we are, languages,
Symbol systems. The minute

Things get quiet, brains recall
How rumination’s broadcast
Like the news on radio,

At every hour, on the hour.
Top of the hour—more trouble
Everywhere but here, but here,

Maybe you can get a break,
Maybe just a little pause.
Would you like to time travel,

To murder the grandfather
Paradox? Find those bipeds
Beta-testing words. Kill them.