Office Gossip

Gaggling, babbling, rambling on,
The office grapevine yields its wine;
The vintage often unimportant,
Bottled quickly, swallowed fast
Then passed along in bits and snippets
Changing as it passes hands
'Til uproar lifts its ugly head
As ire is raised and doubt is cast.

Still we listen, still believe,
Though third and fourth or fifth-hand told,
And take to heart and pass along
Like tall tales told as lullabies.
And even though discovery lies somewhere
Just beyond our reach,
We take without a grain of salt
And gladly swallow all the lies.

I shall not be part and parcel.
I will dig to find the facts
When office gossip rears its ugly head
And, without shame, attacks.

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