you squeezed it from its little packet onto your glazed doughnut mindlessly committing culinary blasphemy without a sound others did not notice until they saw the yellow remnants on your red wax lips they said nothing for their rapt attention was on the boss who chattered on about grand ideas while you guiltlessly chewed and swallowed I missed nothing for your bold foray into comestible “paradigm shifts” was of far more interest to me than the inflated business at hand like sweet custard on a Frito pie your mustard caught my eye and had me pondering the elusive mysteries of mind and mouth while others gazed at our leader’s clean moving lips untroubled by their enchantment
**on the significance of staff meetings in the world of grown ups