THREE JEERS FOR THE CUBICLE
    ON ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Who put up the first cubicle?

Let’s agree it wasn’t Rubikle.

But we do know the fuzzy date,

Sometime in nineteen sixty-eight.

That’s when half a fence arose

Separating some from those

Ready and willing to distract

Workers from their working act,

Cutting production, sinking quotas,

Bringing joy to rival gloatas.

That at least is what the bosses

Told themselves would limit losses

Unaware their production troubles

Stem not from conversational bubbles

But rather from the office medium

Bringing on unending tedium.

What then has the demi wall

Accomplished? Really nothing at all.

Fences that are six feet high

Are as redundant as "pizza pie."

Better to cover mouths with gags,

Bosses, and cover heads with bags.

That’s the direction you need to go–

Build another Guantanimo.