Hear! Here!

Rejected, dejected, swallowed up in dark gloom.

It's pretty darned tough to pull out

No matter how hard and how assiduously

He tries to gloss over self doubt.



He is so good at his job and so capable

Head hunters would try to lure him.

He's top flight in achievement, and all his skills!

As yet nothing can enure him



To their damnable blindness, giving him no chance

To talk with them and so reveal

His intelligence and his great abilities,

His hunger to work, and his zeal!



I'd like to go walk right in on some director

And tell him straight out what a fool-

What a pea-brained and discombobulated jerk-

He is, to play such dirty pool.



Yes, the economy and the worry of war

May to him be over-riding

But why cut off your nose, to spite your face, Business?

'Needs must when devil is driving?'



Downsizing! Downsizing! How dare they just cancel

A good man's bright shining career!

Oh, give me a chance to speak vociferously!

I'll put a good bug in their ear.



Callous fools!

I'll put in a word as I'm near.



Stupid oafs!

I'll make my position quite clear.



Foul pigs!

He is the one man you need here!!



Do you hear?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Commiserating with a friend in this era of cut backs in employment.

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