The budgeting process usually comes to a halt at this point because the production department does not consider the financial resources allocated to be adequate.

The production manager meets with the factory managers to develop a manufacturing plan that will produce the required units when needed within the cost constraints set by the executive vice president. She then forwards to the production department the product-line sales budget in units and the total dollar amount that can be devoted to manufacturing. The executive vice president prepares the budget for corporate expenses. The executive vice president uses the sales and profit targets, the sales budget by product line, and the tentative marketing expense budget to determine the dollar amounts that can be devoted to manufacturing and corporate office expense. The marketing manager also estimates the cost of the marketing activities required to support the target sales volume and prepares a tentative marketing expense budget. From this budget, sales quotas by product line in units and dollars are established for each of the corporation's sales districts. The marketing manager formulates a sales budget by product line in both units and dollars. The sales target is given first to the marketing department. It begins the annual budgeting process in late August when the president establishes targets for the total dollar sales and net income before taxes for the next year. The first one was the poem I wrote during the poetry workshop, while the second poem is a found poem that is based on “Previous Condition” by James Baldwin.Palmer Corporation operates on a calendar-year basis. I’m also going to include two of my poems here. Perhaps the only connection between the poem and the rest of the collection is that the poem references Greek mythology and the collection as a all is supposed to be inspired by Greek epics like the Iliad or the Odyssey. It was an interesting poem to include in the collection, seemingly because the piece seems to be somewhat out of place. The poem itself seems to be quite dark, with no real interaction between Daedalus with the other characters, with Daedalus more focused on looking out at sea than listening to the requests of children. The poem almost seems to mock Daedalus, whose only real hope in the past of saving is son was if he invented something that allowed him to be fish. In the scene, there are children, many of whom seem envious of the wings, but one boy in particular mentions how they don’t wants wings. Saeed Jone’s poem seems to reference Daedalus finally reaching land after his long journey and looking back into the sea, where his son is now lost in. However, Icarus’ hubris gets the better of him as he flies too close to the sun and crashes due to the wax on his wings melting. The original myth is one that warns of hubris, as Daedalus constructs wax wings for his son and himself to escape Crete. The poem is quite short, being only two stanzas long, and reference the Greek myth of Daedalus, the great but cursed inventor, and his son, Icarus. Some of that might have to do with the fact that I felt like I understood the meaning behind this poem almost instantly, while for some other poems in the collection, comprehension did not appear until after a couple of extra reads.

While there were several poems from Saeed Jones book, Prelude to Bruise, that caught my attention, the poem, Daedalus, After Icarus, was probably the first.

Icarus and daedalus story analysis