Back to Work: a Sonnet / by Brian Kunde

Back to Work: a Sonnet
by Brian Kunde

Vacation's over: now it's back to work,
To labor at such labor as they send us,
Which multiplied, to bide, and hide, and lurk
In wait for us. The shock was most tremendous.
Where could it all have come from? I confess
I've wondered this, but haven't any clue
As to the antecedents of the mess,
Which, uninvited, came for us to do.
The reason makes no difference, I suppose,
However, as however it has come,
We have to deal with it. Heaven knows
Just how, but now we must, so hand us some.
While we were out, our desks were inundated:
A lengthy day is plainly indicated.

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Back to Work: a Sonnet

Originally published in
SUL News Notes, Vol. 3, no. 12, Mar. 25, 1994.

1st web edition posted 12/23/95.
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