The life story of Venus de Milo
By Wee-yong 2002-12-4

After quitting her job as a model

she tried her hand as a waitress --

balancing trays of French toast
and spaghetti in tight clothes,

then spending her tips
on the engineering classes
that she took in night school.

She landed a work in SBIRS --
fingers typing technical memos
and filing classified folders,

making charts and photocopies,
then riding crowded bus and train
back to the East Bay flat
where she took off her shoes

and admired her beautiful feet

until she got her foot in the door

of the building that Juniper bought

re-established her Baseline

and settled in a cubicle in SEIT

fashioning a system-wide integrator
of Space and Ground sectors
and embracing Payload
so tight it snapped off her arms

and left her standing in line
at employment office in the Louvre,

landed a position admired by
the people all over the world.

This poem contains some specific terms used in my work.