An Evil Creature

In trouble again for lack of professionalism
I am an evil creature, a blight in the night
spoiling the image of my Department
I am a disgrace to all of humankind

In the furthest galaxies a lament is going up
that horrible creature of the night has been
at it again, sent out an unprofessional
request for help to find interpreters

The whole Department is reprimanded for being
different from the rest of grey, classical, invi-
sible institutions, she used IMAGERY and
SIMILES in her email request

NO! Yes, the most atrocious kind, referred to
language practitioners as magicians – NOO!
Such effrontery, blasphemy! Asked them to
pull rabbits of information from

Their language magician’s hat – OH NOOO –
This is too much, she should be stoned, burnt
or crucified, I am terrified, what is the world
coming to - Kill, kill, annihilate, annihilate!

Hang her, maim her, pull out her tongue, cut off
her hands, break her knees, let her bleed unto
death! Let her corpse be hung in a public place
so all can see her disgrace

And teach their kids how to live the assembly-line-
life in George Orwell’s nineteen-eighty-four novel,
teach your children they are just another brick in
the wall, to become filing cabinets

Before they are grown, being a nonentity
is the only way to go!