Patricia Walsh’s poem: Perfected Management


Contacting betters dint of saying enough

Every evening gone, roping in for superlative

Signing over orders, cooled coffee abating

The correct birthstone not warding off the hate

Enough being sufficient to massacre in need.


Universal decorum rather lost on the mannerly

Some not to be done on exit of conversation

Missed and hit, on the speed of rejection

Washing sins away from the perfected eye.


Drifted from the summary point of the argument

Wrapped up in sentiment, the past abiding,

Shivering on the bracken fungus appearing

Reasoning into a corner seeing the funnier side

Closeted revenge, fate growing into spite.


Singing songs above the racket, highly praised

Cliqued into a conversation, alas and welaway,

Manufactured time going it's own way

The cargo of entertainment is still running dry.


This fattened drink, sweet and unnerving,

The moulded clique, work-forces carved

Drunk on the job, secretarial amissing

Gone from failure to weakness, dissenting

Sanitised for proper bearing, a dimming eye


Patricia Walsh was born and raised in the parish of Mourneabbey, Co Cork, Ireland.  She has previously published a range of poetry in publications across Ireland, the UK, and the US, and one collection of poetry, Continuity Errors,  with Lapwing, and two novels, The Quest For Lost Éire, and In The Days of Ford Cortina, in 2013 and 2021 respectively.  She lives in Cork City. A further novel, Hell for Beginners, is scheduled for release in 2024.

Leave a comment