Uuuuup Next!

UP NEXT, we will have for you:

A step back through the time machine to the early 1980s...in Willimantic, Connecticut! Home of Eastern Connecticut State University (and not much else)!  Step back in time and experience Debbie's college days (BNYC). With a step back to the past, we will experience...

CREATIVE WRITING/ POETRY, FALL 1984, ALEXANDER TAYLOR....

"The new poems are especially good, Denise...ah, Debbie!"

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And finally...LOVE IN THE ZEROX ROOM

LOVE IN THE ZEROX ROOM

I thought I found love in the zerox room

But I was wrong.

By the time you apologize for all your lies

I will be long gone.

Saying "I love you" is so humane

When you tell others the exact same thing!

An emotional roller coaster ride sounds pretty groovy -

Almost like the plot of some sad movie.

You're lacking in at least one social grace:

Asking another girl out right in front of my face!

Like twisting my arm 'till I can't stand the pain

Stop! I want to scream

But what is there to gain?

I thought I found love

But I was wrong

By the time you apologize for all your lies

I will be long gone.

 

Denise Hickey

5/15/89





POEM: "End of the Line"

CFT is the place to be

I wish the phone would ring for me.

At the end of the line, someone I can't see

Is waiting just to talk to me.

The phone keeps ringing for all to see

How I wish it would be for me.

0585D

(That's the WANG Word Processor floppy diskette, 8 x 5, number. Circa 1989?)

Are we there yet???...* * * :)

(Denise...Denise Dances...2011 -- 22 Years Later!)

POEM: "All Stressed Out"

ALL STRESSED OUT

I'm all stressed out

I don't know what anyone is talking about

I feel so alone

Sitting here by the phone

I'm all stressed out

And I just want to go home!

DH/ 0684D

UP NEXT

UP NEXT..."All Stressed Out" (of course? of course!)...."The end of the line"...and finally.....LOVE IN THE ZEROX ROOM.

HOT COMMODITY

HOT COMMODITY

Commodity Future Traders is the place to be!

Someone stole my copy key!

Copying all those travel N 'xpense reports

At the copyroom all day 'nough to give my hands warts.

Dinner for two at the Four Seasons:

Strictly business sounds pretty pleasin' !

Why oh why did they have to choose me

To be seven pushy people's se-cre-ta-ry ?

Copying ev'ryone's travel N 'xpense reports

At the copyroom all day 'nough to give my poor hands warts.

Standing at the zerox machine for hours and hours -

On Secretaries' Day, they even forgot to send me flowers !

What will they all say when I phone from home

And tell them all to "Answer your own phone!"

Commodity Future Traders - it's the place to be !

I still can't find my copy key.

Copying all those travel N 'xpense reports

At the copyroom all day 'nough to give my poor hands warts.

DH

# 0590D

THE CORPORATE BLUES

THE CORPORATE BLUES

I've got the Corporate Blues

I've gotta pay my dues

No more back to school

Or partying hardy or being cool.

A multi-national corporation

Is a different kind of life:

You sit around, answering phones

And it's only some executive's wife.

I've got the Corporate Blues

I've gotta pay my dues

No more back to school

Or partying hardy or being cool.

The chief executive's office

Is a snazzy place to be:

Corporate clones answering phones

Are everywhere to see.

All those years spent paging

Through infinite school books

Haven't given me a clue as to what to do

To get down pat that Corporate Look.

Studying Plato

Or learning of Columbus' ships

Has now given way

To inter-office memoranda and paper clips.

I've got the Corporate Blues

I don't know what to do

I'm wearing one wrong shoe

I think I'd rather be back in school.

Summer 1987

DH