16:45 –
Information overload
Another fucking meeting request???
Ring ring a desk phone goes off nearby
Throb Throb goes my head
Click Clack goes my neighbour’s keyboard
Rackity Rack Rack someone drums their fingers infuriatingly
Approaching deadlines tighten around me
Like the band of stress around my head
Need to think
Approaching explosion point
Stress rising
Could use a drink or two
I see you approach me in the window reflection
And school my features
I want to rip your arm off and beat you with it
Instead I smile politely
Micro managing idiot
That could have been sent via email
Cubicles encroaching
Penned in like livestock
Snarling at each other in polite business tones
Stressed over insignificance
I stick my radio on
It adds to the humming cacophony that is this zoo
I look out of my window
And wish I could just open it up
And fly away somewhere quiet
Somewhere away from everyone
Just lie on my back
And watch the sky
I can’t though
Too many responsibilities
Defeated I begin to type click clack clack