Saturday, September 30, 2017

Real Poetry

As event security guards, we are not allowed to have our phones out at all and that can be a cause for immediate dismissal if we are caught "on our phones." I leave my phone in the car so I am not even tempted. We are required to keep a small notebook of paper and pen in case of emergencies or to write down important instructions or names. I find, that I can stand at my post and write poetry, or philosophical ideas, or wacko memorials, for hours at-a-time in that little notebook and it never arouses any suspicion, or curiosity. But if I was texting on my phone I would immediately get dismissed, or fired. "Perceptions..."

copyright (c) 2017
William Schaeffer

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