Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com
Fifteen Minutes at a Dead Man’s Desk
No one wants to clear his desk away
The computer still open but the screen dead black
A sheaf of files still needing his attention
Rainbows of Post-It notes around and up
His trusty old Radio Shack calculator
The client-filled, smoked-plastic Rolodex
The reading lamp still angled exactly right
Telephone calls that will never be returned
To-do lists that will never be fulfilled -
No one wants to clear his life away