Have you ever read Harrison Bergeron? It's about a guy who is smarter than average in a society where being equal is the most important thing, so he has a thing implanted in his brain that blares an excruciatingly loud noise every few seconds, to prevent him from developing any sort of train of thought.
My work is a lot like that- it is next to impossible to carry on a decent conversation with coworkers as you are constantly being interrupted by customers. Damn customers! Today I had the kernel of a poem in my brain, and started to compose it a bit but of course it was immediately blown away like so many leaves on a windy day by the voracious hordes. So I will try and reconstruct it sometime soon, and get the gist anyways, but it just won't be the same. Oh well.