Surviving in the Derelict Jungle
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 12 years.
Stuck in a nightmare that's completely inescapable
Wherever you go the sound of screeching howler monkeys follow
Getting louder and louder with each passing step
Sounding like an unintelligible Fran Drescher on steroids
Flinging verbal excrement at anyone who doesn't cater to them
Babying them as they go through their day pretending to be clueless
Burning down every tree and animal dwelling inside of them
Ready to escape the madness by any means necessary
Sadly, not even loud music can smother the screams of the annoyed
Ready for a vacation into a more urbanized and relatively quieter area
Unfortunately, stuck about a mile and a half away from the circus
Near and far away from it at the same time dreading the return
Back to the thick or thin of the brush as the lifeless inhabitants
Sit looking bored and depressed in their respective corners
Wondering when a swarm of locusts will come to swallow them up
Fed up with one low ranking denizen trying to control it all
A mutiny needs to topple this dictator and put them in their place
Unfortunately, most of the protestors run away in fright
So there's usually one left to stand up to them
A David versus Goliath idea that never seems to get old
Just need a loud mouth and a big stick just like Teddy Roosevelt
Ready for a showdown of the ages
A battle royale as the corporate jungle has ever seen
Time to put that seated albatross in their place for good
Let's just hope that I have the nerve or the lack of temperament to do it
I always managed to chicken out at the 11th hour
Fingers crossed that today is different
I'll grow a little braver and don't look like the villain while doing it
When sick and tired of being victimized by them.
Ready. Here goes nothing, folks.