Best Pink Slip Poems

...I spent a night in Somnia
which put me to the test
The lodgings were luxurious
but I could find no rest

They said it was a quiet town
I fell for all their ploys
And all the stupid sheep I tri......

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...This page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop.  The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift.  Should any jo......

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...When you're punching
           that working time clock,
            you'd better know the 
                     "WHEN!"

            Lacking punctuality is
              a crime and a sin!
          If you don't want to get
                the "pink slip",
          you adopt this regimen!

             "Early is on time,
                "EMPLOYEE!"
              On time is late!
           Late is unacceptable!
              For NO ......

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...Scraps in rusted trash
Scent the air with misery
Clutching his pink slip



05/09/13
10:21 pm......

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...Annoying knot right in the pit
Of my stomach, please stop it!
You twist and churn with fear and dread
Echo voices in my head

Have you any clue who I am
What I'm up to as a man?
What's your jo......

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...(This is a fictional poem)

The car I bought wasn't as fast as the previous owner said.
I'm going to kick his ___ and give him some serious wounds to his head.
I raced the car last night and I be......

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...I said, “No.” and I meant it.
There was a memo. You know I sent it.
No...it's not something you can deny
And I have no interest in hearing why.
Your read receipt’s right here.
And the memo’s mea......

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...new employee
flings red socks in a white load
pink slip

1-25-2012

Sponsor	John lawless
Contest Name	SIMPLY SENRYU......

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...They assigned me to write a sonnet about the life of a drunken writer
whose dream wouldn't shatter, but his foolishness wasn't in the past tense; 
he spent endless hours reading blogs of people who......

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...Everyone says there must be something better
They look over their shoulder and wipe the dust of their sweater
Not the dust of manual labor
From sitting on a shelf, contact paper

No better way to mak......

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...
Low-level office drone,
you move cautiously in the corporate hive
Never bringing any attention to yourself,
especially when the pink slip memos fly by
The queen bee of your department,
prot......

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...(Unsigned, Sealed, and Delivered)

Part 1:
Oh I worked several years at Atari (1)
Always thinking, "It's too good to last,"
Bushnell's (2) leaving - hand writing on rampart -
Though momentum wo......

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...At the 5:00 whistle
When the sunset in late November
Is less light and more molten
Like a blast-furnace window
Glowing above the highway home

Goo spilling from its sparkling ladle
Bent
At th......

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...I think I'll die before I live
from time to time, I suppose
life seems more take than give
a cynical opinion sometimes shows

Michael, Gabriel or Azrael may
come to bring me my pink slip
and l......

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...more the norm than the exception
in this wonderful capitalist rape room
where coming into work can mean
leaving early without a job & a
pink slip, with a pat on the back & a
“thanks for being such a ......

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