there at the top

she's independent, she's a modern woman, she needs no prompting, on her should 'n' shouldn't, it's always bosses, who wish that she wouldn't, files in the cabinet so neatly numerical, makes all the clients so neatly alphabetical, turn of 21, she's looking at the map, looking at her watch, bags on the rack, it seems like she's there at the top, there for her service, comfy red granada, up to the midlands, with a taped sinatra, plans all the hotels, and the airplane charters, found under covers with some representative, the deal is effected but still only tentative, shorthands a letter, heading on the paper, slimline her lunchbreak, will it ever make her, slender and modern, so all the men will take her, back to the mirror in the empress hotel, where the businessman smiles and the object is sell