Stress Jobs Poems

 I needed a job to pay the bills
not knowing what I was getting into.
A telemarketing company if you can believe
selling pieces of Titanic’s carpet...

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Five days of hell
on the phone, selling lies
and pieces of the Titanic carpet.
A sinking ship of a company
with a captain who gropes and leers
and a...

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One-Out One-in To Do

Too much to do?
Much more than few?
Only add one in
When one out binned....

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Crap Job
I’m endlessly told be grateful you’ve got a job
But I’d love to pick another slave to do it
So they can experience the bull I...

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Those companies come along, when the markets wright
the profit goes away, when books aren’t sound

Our jobs come along, when they want height
the work goes away,...

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This morning when I awoke and before I got dressed
I decided to myself to simply just wear less

There are times when many of us overdress...

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Earnings
help wanted
long evenings
a service toil of trays
which exhausted smile
the tip

Earnings
high cut mini
her service
always the management's eye
for sex

The table shines
coins in ashtrays
ashes in plates
faces crowded with...

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These Arms Long To Hold You

The first time we met, I knew you were stress,
Met again, and again, I stopped counting,
Your photo at work, cannot...

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Webinar expires today!
Kids pick up, read to and play
Washing needs to be hung out
Dishwasher’s ready for clearing out
Cat needs taking to the vet
Bills need sorting...

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Multitasking
Planning and thinking
Always jumping
Two steps ahead
How would I know
To live in the moment
As I juggle priorities
And make sure
Everything gets done 
On time and just right

Strung...

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First off-
you're E~did,

fawned like frozen in a wrong beam of time-

God is only justified by his own usury,

and we don't do the forgotten as a...

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First day incognito,
called my yesterday boss
On a new burner cell,
with a free burrito ad promo toss
Told her this was my courtesy job 
severance quitting HR...

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“You don't live every day, so why not live today?”
Said the boy to the woman who lives just to pay.
Pay her bills, pay her loans,...

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I'm the good bad cop,
I'm good at being bad
My partner is the bad good cop,
he's bad at being good
We make a good team,
we put a...

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I live in a concrete jungle,
with buildings in the place for trees,
and traffic noise in the place for wild game.

Dawn to dusk I trek with...

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