A coldish day at the office

This prolonged adolescence is coming to an end

thankfully I need not adjust my many abnormalities

as I am segueing quite nicely and without interruption

into what we euphemistically like to call 'the change'

which might be considered a bit of a blessing really

coming hard on the heels of baby steps into adulthood
so perhaps once I'm through this I might eventually
settle into something resembling normal grown up-ness

In the meantime I now have carte blanche to misbehave!

Isn't getting older fun? No, not today it sodding well isn't
can we open the darn window please it's too hot in here
all the men around me jump to it, overly eager to oblige
which tells you not so much that they are well trained
although I permit myself some small satisfaction on that score
clearly though I have been a less than a cheery manager of late
to such an extent that even the more moronic outer fringes
have become aware of this now not so secret alteration

This strange inner altercation with outward ramifications
soothed only by an endless stream of earl grey tea
and kind words regarding the minor gale blowing
through the office orifices or is it orifi I wonder

I can't seem to keep a straight thought in my head today

and don't get me started about the trips to the loo

I am thinking of setting up a second office in there

which would be wholeheartedly seconded by my team

Oh well I suppose we all have to grow up sometime

it's such a shame we have to grow old on the outside though

wouldn't it be more sensible if we just turned inside out instead

which would save all that ferreting about in the darker corners

of our psyche in search of our much vaunted inner child

but then I've come to believe that this prolonged adolescence

may well be due to an overly active inner child in the first place

how else to explain the various idiosyncrasies of this mid-life woman?