Shutting Up: [My First Excellent]

My first "excellent"
from Bookkeeper: Student Guards
fucked up. I write

Head of Student Guards:
DANGER: CIVILIZATION'S
ORDER JEOPARDIZED!

stated POLICY!
I used the word adamant.
Bookkeeper approved.

Shutting Up: [Bookkeeper out sick]

Bookkeeper out sick
Friday felt a festival.
Bookkeeper's patron

particularly
delighted in Bookkeeper's
GONE! I said nothing.

Shutting Up: Day 10

My silence has worked:
I've been pulled from committees,
my obsolescence

times my indifference.
I cannot manipulate
damn in one silo

but not another
in obligatory life:
I am who I play.

Shutting Up: Day Seven

Fuckity, shut up.
My opinions are not sought
beyond evidence

of growing dissent,
Nay! insubordination!
They're counting on me.

Shutting Up: Day Two

Shutting Up: Day Two:
No one noticed I'd shut up.
Bookkeepers archive

emails like crime scene
evidence against future
coups, not what you say.

Emails have tripled
since Bookkeeper's ascension.
I grudge my keystrokes. 

Shutting Up: Day One

Shutting Up: Day One:
Neighborhood streets still unplowed,
no one was at work

but me. Tomorrow,
needed talk then shutting up.
Departments toggle,

freeze-dry staff lounges,
lunches eaten secretly,
mute's osmosis words

-weather, helmetball
team, how bout that weird weather? -
fuck me. This shut up

before they make me?
Result: Day Two: Shutting Up:
No one will notice.


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3rd line, 4th stanza = embalm changed to fuck me.
1st line, 3rd stanza =  freeze-dried changed to freeze-dry moved to front of line
2nd line, 2nd stanza = talk as needed then shut up changed to needed talk then shutting up.
Colon added to title.