The Corporate Poet

At C. R. Love Incorporated, the company slogan is: Happy people make good things - Good things make happy people. It sounds so simple and inviting. Walk its straight hallways and let not your gaze wander too long along the blank ceiling and life will be...good. But the trimmed brows of the company executives begin to sweat. Russ Feathers confronts the disingenuous corporate world with an unfamiliar honesty. The byproduct is a collection of poems about his disenchantment and debilitation. It is for others a looking-glass on the blurry subtext of the corporation. Russ recasts the company slogan into dozens of his own through his poetry. Russ self-publishes his poetry, but the books sit silent and unread in innocuous piles in his living room until Albert Turnkey happens upon his work and connects tale with poetry in The Corporate Poet.