Merger, downsizing
buy-outs, no buy-outs
gun fights.
One takes a bullet
to the heart
and dies.
The surviving gun fighter
left to live on
limping
one lung gone
struggling to breathe.
There is no one left to do
what is supposed to be done.
It is a short time
before the other lung goes.
Everyone is gone now,
no one to remember the dead.
Death by Merger
A corporate merger is imagined as a gunfight where no one walks away whole.
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