sometimes the work of numbers and box ticking
filing and finding small ways in which others can manage
forms and letters composed to create order and computations that provide
organization
the absurdity of human life sometimes overwhelms
I walk with Whitman among the curls of grass the tall stalks with their gentle fonds
and the smallest sprout peeking amongst the thickets
even in the dense heat
and heaviest chill
* Walt Whitman