Work Blues: Part 562

Looks like we could be in for hard times at work, no business at the moment when business should be strong an' keepin' us all busy. Funny how people don't want to hear when you say that things are tough, unless that is, they are the people who are quite happy to see you fall from where you are and end up in the gutter. Anyway, sittin' in the office an' not much to do now. Sit tight I guess and see what the new year brings...well that and do our best to get as much as we can through the system beforehand. Am i scared? Not really. After 20 years of this kinda life, scrapin' around for the better part of my workin' day, trying to think of ways to get people to buy our books and all the other stuff we sell, I am quite lookin' forward to possibility of it all getting busted up an' broken in a big smash against the walls of Bankrupt Avenue. There will be grief that is for sure but I guess I am as ready as I ever will be to face it an' get this whole goddam sorry business over with once and for all. Compensation will come in the knowledge that all those shit times in the course of a working day, month, year when things didn't quite pan out the way you wanted them to are now at last over...and I can be free to stumble into the next big box of tricks that life will bring, where once and yet again I know I will come up short, badly wanting, bleeding from the inside with terrible guts.