[Newspoetry] Dear Editor: Take It Easy, Please...

[Mike Lehman]

You have to be careful not to overdo that writing and editing stuff:

> BIRMINGHAM MERCURY: Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work
>out why no one noticed one of their employees had been sitting dead at
>his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay. George
>Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proofreader at a New York
>firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he shared with
>23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody
>noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was
>still working during the weekend. His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said,
>"George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at
>night so no one found it unusual he was in the same position all that time
>and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept
>much to himself." George was proofreading manuscripts of medical
>textbooks when he died.