Sassoon’s Work Burn: The Collected Poems

By Elias Sassoon

Everybody does it; everybody has to do it; everybody has to live through it. Whether you’re born of wealth or into poverty, you cannot avoid it! Work, as in going to work, that’s it. Work, it’s the crux of the matter for those who live on Earth. Today, most toil at jobs in modern office buildings with computers and gadgets to process and transmit digitized information. Who do we work for? In one way or another, for major corporations that control all. We workers are specs in the system. Our lives are consumed in that system. That’s why we need to take a closer at what the job means. Who is your boss? Who are your co-workers? How do you fit in? What is the significance for you? How does it all relate? The poetry collection explores this world from a personal angle. Hopefully, it will help you reflect. That is the goal anyway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781304950864

Elias Sassoon

Elias Sassoon is the author of approximately, roughly, terminally twenty-five works that include short story collections, novels, poetry collections and non-fiction, essay collections. While producing his writing by night, he has earned his daily wage in honest labor that ranges from professions like teacher/bathroom attendant to a door-to-door bible salesman/fish cleaner and everything in between. Elias continues to work hard, grinding out the words and turning them into literary gems, or if you prefer, literary pearls of wisdom. He lives with his wife, two children and a dog-named Brandon in a suburban area in the vicinity of the great Metropolis known as New York City. There he prepares barbecue dinners for neighbors and friends, roams the area for yard sales, watches flies and other moving insect life die in his backward where he also sits on a metal beach chair deciding on the future of the world as we know it.

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Sassoon’s Work Burn: The Collected Poems

Sassoon’s Work Burn:

The Collected Poems

by

Elias Sassoon

Sassoon’s Work Burn: The Collected Poems

ISBN: 978-1-304-95086-4

Copyright © 2014  by Elias Sassoon

All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or, other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage  or retrieval systems, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher. This is a work of non-fiction.

First Printing: May 2014

Dedication

To the human spirit of perseverance in the face of untold obstacles. Most of us get up every morning and head off into the world despite the depression, the physical discomforts, and the insanity around us. How amazing is that!

Table Of Contents

CHAPTER 1 – BURNED DESCRIPTIONS

(1) ***TEXTURES***

(2) ***BRICKS & THINGS***

(3) ***INTERIOR FIXTURES***

(4)***CONCRETE CIRCLES***

(5) ***DUCKS AT WORK***

(6) ***METAL DESKS***

(7) ***HALLWAYS, WALKWAYS, BYWAYS***

(8) ***DIGITALLY INFORMED***

(9) ***DESCRIPTION OF CITY AT WORK***

(10) ***DAYS, THE WEATHER, OUTSIDE, JOB***

CHAPTER 2 – BURNED MOODS

(1) ***WORK MOODS***

(2)  ***TOUCHING THE STEELY BLUES***

(3) ***CLAUSTROPHOBIC***

(4) ***EXPANSIVE MOOD***

(5)***DOGS, PIGS, SLEAZE-STACKS EVERYWHERE***

(6) ****RELIGIOUS ATMOSPHERICS***

(7)  ***DECAYING ASSUMPTIONS***

(8) ***ACCOUNTING MOOD****

(9) ***UPPER ECHELON***

(10) ***CORPORATION NOT***

CHAPTER 3 – ODE TO BAD PEOPLE BURN

(1) ***PRICKLY PEAR FACE***

(2) ***NAPOLEONIC VISION IN DARK BLUE***

(3) ***FOUL MOUTHED BITCH IN HEAT***

(4) ***PENNY PINCHER, PINCHER OF DEATH***

(5) ***MUTANT COWARDS***

(6) ***PARTNER, PARTNER, NEED TO BE A PARTNER***

(7) ***EMPRESS OF DECEIT***

(8) ***SMILING HYENA***

(9) ***RELIGIOUS, HYPOCRITE, AT WORK-NOT PLAY***

CHAPTER 4 – ODE TO GOOD BURN: SAINTS  IN SHIRTS & TIES

(1) ***TRIBUTE TO THE GOOD GUYS***

(2) ***MILITARY MAN TAKING THE TIME***

(3) ***PERSON OF GOOD FEELINGS***

(4) ***BAD SURROUNDING, GOOD GUY***

(5) ***JERKY, FREAKY, BUT A DAMN NICE FELLAH***

(6) ***FUNNY WOMAN AT WORK***

(7) ***LITTLE MAN, BIG***

(8) ***BABBLING BUMBLE BEE***

(9) ***CARRYING RELIGION TO THE DOOR OF PROFITABILITY***

(10) ***GIRL, NO, WOMAN WITHOUT A DRESS***

(11) ***PEACE CORPS AT WORK***

CHAPTER 5 – RANDOM BURNINGS

(1) ***RANDOM THOUGHTS***

(2) ***GET UP NOW, UP, GET YOUR BUTT IN GEAR***

(3) ***NOT TOUCHED, NOT FELT***

(4) ***HISTORY, GOING TO WORK, AND THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATION***

(5) ***GOING INTO WAGES OF SIN, THE GOOD THINGS***

(6) ***GETTING YOUR TWO CENTS WORTH***

(7) ***OFFICES, SILLY PLACES, BUS STOPS***

(8) ***REMEMBERING GOOD TIMES, BAD JOBS***

(9) ***HAVING JOBS, MANY, MANY JOBS***

(10) ***WORK ATTITUDES: VERSION I***

(11) ***WORK ATTITUDES: VERSION II***

(12) ***WORK ATTITUDES: VERSION III***

(13) ***JOBS, MY FATHER’S JOBS***

(14)***WORKING AND NOT WORKING***

(15) ***WORKING WITHIN PURITAN COUNTRY***

(16) ***DISRUPTIVE JOB COMPARISONS***

(17) ***GREAT JOBS EXIST***

(18) ***COMMON DENOMINATORS***

(19) ***JOB SURVIVAL - ONE JOB***

(20)***MODERN BUSINESS AND THE STERILE APPROACH***

SASSOON’S WORK BURN

CHAPTER 1 – BURNED DESCRIPTIONS

(1) ***TEXTURES***

Working walls of working places for work where you’re working.

Walls, working, at work, the walls, surrounding the work, working walls.

Gray walls, fabric walls,

walls paved with aluminum siding,

those walls, working walls,

cubicle walls, paved walls, walls all around.

Floors, walls, little walls of aluminum and fabric, WALLS,

cubicle walls, cubicles,

modern walls of modern working environments,

cubes, squares, squared, cubed, walls, padded walls.

Textures, walls, cubicle walls,

grainy, shaggy, like carpets in the sky, textures,

the walls, the working walls, the cubicle walls, textured.

Colors, working walls, carpeted walls,

grays, whites, carpeted walls, black, charcoal,

colors, off white, off-black, walls.

Cubicles, modern, working, areas enclosed,

modern, working, conditions,

cubicles, walls for all to see, for all to live in.

Textures of enclosures,

the modern enclosures of the working,

walls, in the modern sense.

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(2) ***BRICKS & THINGS***

Called bricks and things,

buildings of mortar and bricks and things,

metal things, concrete things,

wooden things,

structure of things,

into the city