Best Pink Slip Poems

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 the off-ramp’s arthritic elbow

The city smolders
Under
The backs and braces of its groaning bridges
Like a half smoked cigarette
Crushed under the...

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The love me and you shared expired years ago
The many times I spent attempting to love you
Didn't really mean anything to you so my love we are through
Just like a plague you destroy everything you touch
You are worse than a disease that I cannot remedy...

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About two years ago today...
A day like any other day...
My whole entire world
was turned
Upside down.

My Job was eliminated on that day...
My Health Care was taken away
and nothing...nothing...NOTHING
has ever been the same.

Since I got the pink slip...
it's been hard every day
and even the skies
haven't looked so...

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