PLAIN ENGLISH • by C.L. Holland

Basically

at this moment in time

thinking outside the box

is

a glass half empty.

I hear what you’re saying

but

to be honest

it boggles the mind.

Please

bear with me.

I’m

between a rock and a hard place

24/7,

pushing the envelope

but someone keeps

moving the goalposts.

In terms of

addressing the issue

it’s hardly rocket science.

At the end of the day

the bottom line is

we’re not

touching base.

C.L. Holland is a humble office worker who works in both payroll and credit control. Essentially this means she gives money with one hand while taking it away with the other, which makes it very difficult to type.

Posted on November 7, 2008 in Poems
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17 Responses to “PLAIN ENGLISH • by C.L. Holland”


  1. K.C. Ball Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 1:21 am

    Can I say that I loved this without it sounding too much like a cliche? ;)

    Thanks, C.L. Great read!

  2. Jessica Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    I enjoyed this too :)

  3. dellfarmer Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 3:00 am

    All things considered
    going forward
    from here on out
    keep up the good work.
    Thumbs up!

  4. Nik Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    Great poem!

    When I was a reporter covering city, county, and school board meetings, I would play play “Cliche Bingo” with the other reporters using cards I made including a lot of these terms.

    It was the only thing that got me through.

  5. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    I just adored this poem. Language talking about language – such a fun way to use cliche – poking fun at itself and skirting around the meaningless relationship, in meaningless terms :) Excellent! Is that an octopus I hear singing its swan song?
    Thank you for the very tongue in cheek poem.
    Oonah

  6. Gray Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Very nice indeed.

  7. Steve Goble Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    C.L. … I really like this one. My favorite so far on Every Day Poets. I like the way you used snippets we all hear every single day, and then showed us all how we’re not really communicating. Thanks for a well done poem.

    – Steve

  8. Jessica Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    I really enjoyed this poem. Would love to read more :)

  9. William Soule Says:
    November 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Cool spin on clichés!

  10. R Jay Slais Says:
    November 8th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    I enjoyed reading you here CL, congrats on the fine poem!

    R Jay

  11. Erin Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Really great poem. I loved it!

  12. sjhigbee Says:
    November 15th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    Hope there won’t be blood on the carpet if I say that this poem really has its finger on the pulse, as it were…

  13. C.L. Holland Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 12:43 am

    Thanks!

  14. Diana Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Its funny, cos its true!
    Nice! :-)

  15. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    Just got to this today. Wonderful!

  16. Keith Holland Says:
    November 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 am

    Great stuff!

  17. Sharon Irwin Says:
    November 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Coming late to the party, but I loved this. :)

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