POEM
GK: After this message from the Professional Organization
of English Majors.
TR(YOUNG): Hey.
SS (YOUNG): Yeah.
TR (YOUNG): Howsit going?
SS (YOUNG): Not bad.
TR (YOUNG): Whatcha doing?
SS (YOUNG): Not much.
TR (YOUNG): Me neither.
SS (YOUNG): Same here.
TR (YOUNG): Like your shoes.
SS (YOUNG): Cool.
(LONG BEAT)
TR (YOUNG): Anyway-
SS: Right.
GK: If your children have a hard time expressing
themselves, how are they ever going to find good jobs in
the corporate world where so much depends on your ability
to use language?
TR: So----- going forward, I'd like to backtrack for a
minute and say that the take-home here is that we need to
get our game back and hit the ground running and
solutionize this whole problem in regard to skill-sets and do
what we do best.
GK: The corporate world is fast-paced (PHONE RINGS,
COPIER RACING, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) and it
doesn't tolerate inarticulate or hesitant people.
SS: Well.....uh......I guess it could
be.....depending......you know. Anyway.
GK: Majoring in English teaches your young person to
speak with confidence about books he or she was too busy
to read.
SS: In Moby Dick, Melville is clearly
destructuralizing the patriarchal hegemonist white
whale of male colonialist privilege and pointing the
way toward the feminized sensibility of Ishmael.
GK: And from that, it's not so far to
SS: So finally, at the end of the day the aggregate bottom
line here when it comes to functionality is that that dog
don't hunt.
TR: We need to peel away the onion and ramp it up and
raise the bar and repurpose the synergy that's going to
move the needle on the paradigm shift.
SS: And incentivize people to broaden our bandwidth.
Does that make sense?
TR: In other words, be proactive.
SS: Precisely.
GK: Thinking on your feet. So important. And English
majors, they can dance and chew gum at the same time. A
message from P.O.E.M.