The Tragik Komedy of Precision Ben - Part V (finished)

[A Tale in 5 Parts: Part I - 8/23, Part II- 8/28, Part III-9/04, Part IV - 9/11]
This Part V was started on 9/18 . . .

Impasse
Standstill
Ben you hate me I hate you we
Love
Hate
This place after forty years
It’s been our home our only home our
Child.

Like any good marriage in distress
We sought counseling
..and were counseled
..to seek
..a mediating
Board.

(A Note from The Cube, 5/18: 'have to stop here - for now - too difficult watching it, remembering it - will try to finish . . .)


(5/11: So, then, this is how it's playing out:)

I will make my name in futures
I will forget the past

Yep, Ben, that’s what you said…

So the Board brought in the Future
..and the Future looked like them.
Found a new President
..one of them.
Found a new Team
..from them.
Started a New Company
..by them.

Don’t you know, Ben,
This is your mantra –
You never chanted it quite like this
But this is how they sing it now:
Everything Old is bad
Everything New is good
New is the Future
Forget the Past
(Knowledge)
Steal from the Past
($$$$)
To build the Future.

Isolate,
Prevaricate,
Castrate,
Ben.
The Past is gone.

How could you know the Future
..for them
Was without you?

And me?

Me they lost me first
..with their first lie
..and your first vote.
Me and the 3rd shift:
(but of course they didn’t tell you that, still – )
Did you hear us say good-bye?

The office is still yours:
..so big.
The white offices around:
..new faces.
The factories you built:
..farmed out.
They even forced your mistress out:
..so quiet now.

Take your few handful few new clericals
And issue your memos to the wind –
They will report your every word, never fear,
Every word to be discarded

in smiles and yeses and silent ignorances.

50th Anniversary looms:
In honor of the savaged Past
They will honor the Future.
Honored you are, Ben.
Honor for the dead and dying.

Do you hear your voice echo?

I will make my name in futures
I will forget the past