PublishedMarch 9, 2012
CategoryBertie in Business
The Bottom Line
The Business true-believer’s Shrine
Is something called ‘The Bottom Line’;
All Great Religions need their Sign,
Some symbol of the Most Divine.
Is something called ‘The Bottom Line’;
All Great Religions need their Sign,
Some symbol of the Most Divine.
Until the Audit-Priests have read
Its mystic runes, as Black or Red,
Our futures, and the Chairman’s head,
All hang, suspended from this thread.
Though heretics may think it thick
That mighty Corporations tick
For little, but a line of slick
Accountancy arithmetic;
We – typist, labourer and boss –
All worship at its Omphalos,
And pray the magic lines may cross
At PROFIT oftener than LOSS.
Devout, behind its altar, lurk
We acolytes who do the work,
The Faithful Body of the Kirk,
All waiting on our Holy Quirk.
This hymn’s for us. The lengthy line,
From Board to Office, Plant, Design,
Who serve our Corporate Divine,
Somewhere behind The Bottom Line.