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Staff Spotlight:The WanderPoet
Position: Ephemeral Verse Consultant
Clock-in Time: Unknown
Clock-out Time: Immediately After You Notice Him

You won’t see him arrive.
You might catch a glimpse--
a flicker of velvet,
a whisper that sounds like unfinished poetry.

He drifts between aisles,
scribbling stanzas on the backs of receipts,
leaving notes folded in teacups,
and misquoting love spells near the lip balm display.

He never applied for the job.
He just appears
right before a storm,
drops a single verse,
and vanishes before the ink dries.

We tried giving him a name tag once.
It wrote itself into a sonnet
and dissolved in moonlight.

Check back often. New employees arrive whenever the veil thins… or HR sneezes.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Bordner Avatar
April 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sounds like a bona fide Employee of the Month. I'm overjoyed by your brilliant sense of humor Poetess...super original parody! FAVing the whole series!!...J.A.B.
Leach Avatar
April 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The WanderPoet is honored--and he would thank you personally, but he just dissolved into fog after mumbling something in iambic pentameter. J.A.B., thank you so much for the continued support. Your words mean the world (and possibly the next realm over). The whole catalog tips its haunted hat to you. FAVer of the Forgotten Aisles, --Alesia
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