1.      My basement empire

The boss came down to my dimly-lit kingdom

My box-filled basement, my filing-room empire

And shoved this morning’s list of demands

Across the desk at me

“By 9:30 please”

“Yes Sir”

He surveyed my empire,

As if seeing it for the first time

Pointing to a set of boxes, he said:

“What’s in those?

The one’s labelled ‘Crackers’”

“Th...

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