I thought it would be nicer to put ‘on the beach, see you in three days’ but he bollocked me for being unprofessional. If he wants everyone to know how shit my life really is, I can put that on my out of office.

He’s inside the laptop screen in a café,
for a meeting about the quarterly figures,
unaware his colleague cannot find her headphones.

© Carl Burkitt 2023

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