A Puzzling Dilemma

This poem is about corporate greed and incompetence.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Is it really possible for a year to have started off as

badly as this one and, more to the point, should

it have done? Had anyone said to me prior to

its onset that this is how it would be I would

have upbraided them for being paranoid.

Yet everything I do regardless of the

meticulous care I expend and the

scrupulous precautions I take to

avoid foreseeable and even improbable

problems which may occur, I always end

up having to confront one calamitous

situation after another; why so? I

wish I knew, for at least I could

then realistically hope to

convince the morons

involved, as I’ve

done with myself,

that I’m not

going mad!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

22 January 2011.

 

 

Footnote:

This poem was first written on the 22nd January 2011 but unaltered is now being employed as a caustic but justifiable indictment of the invasive, comprehensively incompetent but none the less intentionally perniciously vindictive, highly questionable practices, and the venal activities of EDF and Scottish Power, but even more infamously the acutely malevolent actions of Steve Hayfield, Customer Services Director at EDF and James B. Paterson, UK Marketing Manager at Scottish Power; inappropriate conduct that in September 2013 is most regrettably now ably assisted by Sarah Phelps ensconced in the Customer Service department of Southern Electric. Activities, I must declare, that are analogous to those of some old criminal gang; close-knit and profoundly incestuous.