#173 Kevin Brophy 'How to get something important done'

#173 ‘How to get something important done’

You talk a little, then you talk some more,

you wait for the crucial meetings to pass,

then talk a little more, then press the point

but not too hard, you wonder who it might

be best to talk to now,

and everyone’s so agreeable,

everyone so equally equal

but they’re not, you’ve been told,

so you talk some more, then you talk

a little more, but not too much,

you choose the place where you talk with care,

until someone hears you talk

and they talk to you too, and gradually

the people around here that you talked to

know what it is you will want to talk about

when you see them,

and so it gets a little easier to talk,

then you talk some more but not so much

that it might seem you’re telling someone

what to do, or even what you’ll do,

it can’t be rushed, it needs this talk,

this settling talk and something else

that happens round the talk, beside the talk,

as the rivers form a lake that settles to a shape

and a depth and a salty life all its own.