The Love Note Posted

each day at nine
she would arrive,
love note in hand.
for the business world frowns
on love affairs,
but she found a way.
using small pins,
she would stick
love notes on
our announcement board,
low right-hand corner,
then slip back to desk.

how it was discovered remains
mysterious, but soon
her lover would pass by,
yanking note into hand,
continuing as if nothing.

but co-workers gathered,
like vultures in hallways,
waiting for nine a.m.
drop offs.

and one day applause
thundered when the note
was yanked off by Ted
and read
aloud.

oh what fun
oh what a crisis
and oh it never
happened again.