Poems of the Week

Of Toil and Toilets *

by Alex Steelsmith

“Swiss Court Rules Workers Must Clock Out For Bathroom Breaks…
‘Swiss law does not mention the right of employees to go to the toilet…’
[T]he company believed the issue was generally about ‘an interruption of work…’”
HuffPost

Hurried, harried
Swiss employees
do their duties
much in haste;

firms concerned that
interruptions
waste their time can
time their waste.

*Alex Steelsmith calls this poem a “double trochee.” For his suggested guidelines to writing your own, click here.