NEW BOSS

She described the new boss as a barge.

I hadn’t thought about him that way,
but now that she said it, I said, “Ohhh?”

Sitting here at my desk,
like sitting at a river’s edge,
I began watching him.

When he floated out of his office
into our room I began to realize what she said.
He could fill the room with “Uh oh!” feelings,

At times he could be like a barge
filled with a heavy something
hidden underneath dark tarps.

Till she spoke I pictured him as a dentist drill.

Barge is better.

Best: what would I want him to be?

Good: who is the real person?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2009