Technical Writing: A Short Lament

I write in cherry filling
they write me back:
potato. no butter pat.

I write in curlicue frosting.
they only write in bossing.
day after day in a cubicle way

I'm bursting with so many things to say
not in addendums.
why can't I win them

over to a merrier way
cordially yours at least
with or without the cherries.

more than the crumbs
from the board room feast
in sleeting January.

mary angela douglas 18 march 2019