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June 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: All Day Hustle, Dawg!

The big boss came over to meet me, and I was
hard at work…Googling Pam Dawber. What had she
been up to since Mork & Mindy? I remembered
My Sister Sam and some TV movies. But where
was she now? Never mind, the big boss wanted
to know how I fitted in. I told him I wasn’t sure
that I did. He laughed  loudly as if I’d made
a clever joke. I cosplay ADHD, which is not to say
the shoe doesn’t fit, it’s more to announce how
afraid I am of hard work. The irony there is how
difficult this makes everything. Still, it was
a good day all up. Got lots of work done.

Found out about Mindy. And met the new boss. (Same
as the old boss). Then remembered My Sister Sam was
cancelled because some nutter killed the other lead actor
after listening to too much U2. (Jokes about listening to
too much U2 making you want to kill are still not welcome).
But yeah, the stalker listened to Exit, a lesser track from
The Joshua Tree
. Bono had written it about Norman Mailer’s
big book, The Executioner’s Song – one of the best things
I’ve ever read. I would have told the big boss that’s how
I fit things in. But that’s not what he was asking. And
anyway, he had anyone else to meet. And I had to
line up the next John Carpenter soundtrack.

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