Best Coworker Poems

She slips in late, almost every day,
begins her work, though it’s mostly play,
first catches up with her office mates---
every detail, her loves and her hates;
each story repeated several times or more,
to everyone passing her wide-open door;
after some minutes, she grabs up the phone,
most often personal,...

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Do you mind if I use you as a muse
And write a few lines about the conundrum that is you?
Tired and broken you lay in clothes which are worn and torn.
Your heart keeps score as your eyes search for more.
Never revealing too much of yourself....

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Coworker Blabberfmouth Jim
Coworkers come
Coworkers go
Coworkers work fast
Coworkers work slow
We know less than nothing about them
Unless you work with blabbermouth Jim.
He talks all day long about nothing but him.
He has had six wives.
They are long gone he said.
Some thought they had all gotten sick.
Others thought they...

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He was late every single day.
Spoke badly of his fellow man.
Kept asking them about his pay.
Lied and cheated, Horman T. Finn.
A good first day, new job? No way....

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You are on a little roll today
I have no idea what he is speaking of
But I know one thing
He is always speaking

Yak Yak Yak
Yuk Yuk Yuk
Yak Yak Yak
Chat Chat Chat
Blab Blab Blab
Gossip Gossip Gossip
Constant blubbering and blathering

You are a wild woman he says
I ignore him
Not...

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A coworker stops to talk
Her sister has nine lives
She has died six times already
I have no reply

She gives me the details
All of them a bit worse than the last
Then she mentions her brother.
He has been in prison.

For driving drunk and killing four
Three in another car,...

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Yak Yak Yak
Saying less than nothing
Gibber Gibber Gibber 
No one hears for we have shut off our ears

Yammer Yammer Yammer
We try to eat in silence
To no avail.
She needs attention, not realizing she is annoying

A brave soul attempts to interrupt
She is new
Not understanding the way this...

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