Memorandum
despite your long resume, you were patient with my inexperience:
overheads beforehand, sticky notes during, and after, a wrap session
detailing early growth, highlights, ups and downs. Your conclusion:
I was worth investment.
you monitored the coming months with the same precision:
you presented improving trends, widening pie chart wedges,
and thicker dividends, so I was staggered
to receive your two-week’s notice.
I acted unprofessionally then, for the first time
in our textbook office romance. I apologize.
All mergers end, all partnerships dissolve,
and I prefer to remember that first presentation:
your assets under sticky censor squares,
yellow reminders of what went where.
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher". --Flannery O'Connor
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