Monitors

Monitors Snow falls on the parking lot Cheryl drops her keys She hums an Inbreds song She's worked here for too long Kevin traces phrases on the foggy break-room glass Thinks about the time he Xeroxed his ass Oh, the boss is in Bermuda Somebody keyed his mobility scooter Kumar from HR says there will be hell to pay But this is already hell, and no one ever really gets paid Stacy and Melissa miss the days when they were temps They can't get away with the things they could back then But Carl says well at least the old floor supervisor's gone He was a Nazi, even though he signed emails with kiss emojis Quote, this is not the future for me Scrawled on the bathroom stall out of sight of the CCTV In R&D Dr. Lee tests the virtual office assistant He gives it simple commands, but it never listens Goddammit, Gary mutters under his breath As he reads out the memo the whole office was accidentally sent Now a hundred goddammits pepper the beans as they spill: The division is closing and moving to Brazil Oh, Katie's knocked over her chair Kirsten and Kristen are throwing paperclips everywhere The virtual office assistant shuts down the surveillance system Monitors make the most beautiful sound when they smash if you know how to listen --- Monitors - Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom