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Commend our graduating MBA's,

who fancy themselves wise in worldly ways

of commerce.  They have mastered Business-Speak,

with noses full of scribbled calculus.

For them, recruiters make a noisy fuss.

These hopeful think their new, costly degrees

(so difficultly earned) give them the keys

that will (when well turned) open any doors,

admitting any future that they seek.

But most of them will soon be shocked to find

that corporate politics are not designed

that way.  Thus, most of them become mere tools

(not sharp exceptions, but the duller rules

apply to them as to all common fools).

Once well ahead of any learning curve,

their new careers are headed for a swerve.

Nor can they stop their wild ride ("Them's the breaks").

Like flurries blown about, these corporate flakes

careen and plummet to some cellar stall

having never been taught (no, not at all)

the Scriptures' warning---Pride precedes a fall.

Commend these who still lack just what it takes.

I laugh so hard, I nearly get the shakes.

Starward

[jlc]