Noise Box

I'm sitting in cubicle row
Hearing more than I need to know
With the speaker phones loud enough
So concentrating is really tough

I don't mean to be a jerk
But how can I do my work
While everyone talks and talks and talks
In this Noise Box

With earplugs or music I'm found
Cutting back on the sense surround
Till the mobile phones start to sing
More aggravating with their own ring

I don't plan to go berserk
But how can I do my work
While everyone talks and talks and talks
In this Noise Box

How many others watching their clocks
Waiting to escape this Noise Box


Written years back in an earlier job