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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Working Out of a Corner Office</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought I started out strong<br>After taking many body blows<br>My guard began to drop</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It felt like - -my head being snapped back<br>I keep moving while holding on <br>Waiting for the bell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once seated in my corner<br>My cut man<br>Goes to work</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cotton swabs and alum <br>Attempting to stem the red flow<br>From above my right eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He presses on my face<br>With a piece of ice-cold steel <br>Trying to keep the swelling down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My manager is moving around<br>In front of me waving an ice-bag<br>Replaying his advice from all my fights</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crowd has their opinions too<br>If I could turn and challenge them<br>To step inside the ring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That would get them <br>To back off<br>That and standing up and spitting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Water and blood in their direction<br>Into a bucket that sits on the apron<br>Near the ringside seats</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead my mouthpiece is slid back in<br>Past swollen lips while I wait in my corner<br>For the bell that will start the next round</div><div style="margin:10px 0">==================================== ==================</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[I dont' usually make comments on my poems. That's up to the readers to do. However, I've heard from so many readers that can't get past the controlling image of this poem; boxing. I wrote this poem long ago. Long before I saw the movie, 'Michael Clayton.' For some of the other facets to work for the reader of this poem, I have two suggestions: 1) it's out on DVD now so you can rent the movie 'Micheal Clayton.' Think about the character Arthur working out of a corner office, and 2) like any poem, my title is trying to give you a hint of what direction the poem is going to take. a) metaphor of 'working out' - - trying to take care of yourself and b) the stress, grind and responsibility of working in middle or upper business managemnt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I put this after the end of my poem. I don't want to spoil it for a first time reader. I hope they got, on their own; that this poem is not just about boxing. The same way that Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is not about the cruelty to an Albatross, nor is Virgina Wool's 'The Death of the Moth' about lepidopterology.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q>
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After taking many body blows
My guard began to drop

It felt like - -my head being snapped back
I keep moving while holding on 
Waiting for the bell

Once seated in my corner
My cut man
Goes to work

Cotton swabs and..."></div>
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