My Neologistic Budget Day…

A poem was written listening to the sounds of Seattle as we prepared our annual budget.

Ian Beckett MSc
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2 min readMay 16, 2023

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Howth harbour seal 2007 — the cover of Reflections ISBN 9781409271048 © Ian Beckett

MY NEOLOGISTIC BUDGET DAY…

Oatmealed and omeletted, start to a dull grey Seattle day
Mutual “Good morning” yawns wait the elevator gruzz
Cheery maid vacumates my room in a swirl of efficiency
Brundling my notes and my PC together I walk to work
Strumphing along beside the fumes of the grundling traffic

Email mountains confabulate the uncoffeed hordes
Typed kerattle the calm before the budget storm
Subterranean stocks desphorror of legal gamblers
Bonehead logic meets dumbling marketing aspirations
Now silent nerbling excuses of cur-whipped executives

Micawber’s message crystal in strangression of promises
Fundamental economics is the only possible bankerage
Blood will flow in abattoir of management incastrophies
Doe-like and frembling in the light of impending execration
The stapression painfully personal as reality bites at last

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Ian Beckett MSc
ILLUMINATION

Ian is a digital transformation expert who has saved companies $300m by integrating technologies and diverse global teams effectively— he is a CEO and poet