High-powered lunch break moments.

There is a meeting going on

Only I hear the gasps
of despair when one guy leaves
for the toilet. Figures bounce,

two hundred, twelve hundred.
There are divisions down the line,
in equal measure. He is being

straight-up, up-front; the brand
is what's important. Cool as fuck.
A need for dumbing down.

In receipt of the pitch, the other man
stops to take a phone call; confesses
to a parental divorce costing his mother

one million pounds. There are intricacies
and positioning; there are beginnings
of many things.