Bad Business

 

Doing business bad,

just a bad businessman.

Although I should probably

write, “businessperson”, but that

just doesn’t have the same

sort of poetry to it.

 

If you’re doing business,

and you’re doing it bad,

let’s just agree you’re a

terrible person and it

doesn’t matter what we call

you.

 

Bad business is when you

handle the business of living

and what life constantly throws

in your face, mind and body;

poorly. Or in this poetic case,

handle it with all the temper tantrum skill of a four year old at a Six Flags.    

 

If you think your Nation's borders

are being encroached upon

and you decide to invade that other

Country; you’re just doing bad business.

If you think the appropriate response

to an off-color joke is violence, you’re doing bad business.

 

If you can’t handle the minor

jabs and arrows of criticism,

you’re a bad business person.

Children can’t handle businesses,

that’s why we don’t let them.  

Adults handle business. Unless it’s lemonade.

 

Handle your business with

dignity, calmness, intelligence

and respect. If these approaches

are rejected, spit upon, or ignored,

then you can elevate your measured

response.

 

With business savvy, acumen, and

guile. And not military incursions and

open hand slaps.

Handle your business better.