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The Project Managers Lament

Graeme Mulvaney

August 23 
Haiku
Alignments are vague
and lanes diverge over time,
numbers map the risk.

About this poem

A brief reflection on the frustration of planning the delivery of a complex software projet

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Submitted by web.bod on August 24, 2023

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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  • Vixility
    Vixility
    These were the notes I jotted down about your poem as I read through all of them:

    “This haiku, which I very much enjoyed, seems to depict the headache of a workplace nightmare; or, perhaps, a spectral vision of hell. Can’t wait to read the ‘about this poem’ section. 
    LikeReply7 months ago

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