Laid Off Poems - Poems about Laid Off

Out the Back Door

...Grey skies in March
as I walk through
the littered yard.
The grass is brown.
No one sees me
except the man
across the alley
loading scrap
into his pick-up.
We talk weather—
snow two days ag...

My own personal updates part two Q and A

...Q:  As of May 2025 who will start having to use real identification cards cause their 
      regular cards won't work?

A:  Thus far only the passengers who ride commercial airlines.

Q:  Is Tru...

Mass deportation

...'make sure everything is well packed son'
Yes, Mother I have everything 
This has always been your dream 
Ever heard of the dreamers?
Yes, mother I want to make you proud 
Well then your flight ...

Yet I Thought

...
When thoughts become obsessive,
is my heart being made redundant,
laid off, cast off, sent astray 
recycled pulse rates mere skip hire fodder,
atrophied organ sinking into deep morass,
panic s...

We paid

...Never will i depend on no female, because we paid. Trust, money up top, ask around we rock, because we paid.  No time to wait and sit, bless my day so we paid. Baby momma tripping, if I'm not on it ....

Concrete Moses

...He's a blue collared artist supreme
with a medium of drywall and wet concrete.
He was laid off when build back better lost its gloss.
He occasionally does side jobs... tax free.
The beard is unke...

Good Times Imperiled

...
   Today’s workplaces incommodious
   Laid off, the exuberant and joyous
     Atmosphere’s sterile
     Good times imperiled
   Efficiency’s drumbeat will destroy us
...

DEADLY GAME OF MRSA

...How the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter 
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm 
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising 
five children including my granddaug...

DP1 DIARY OF DIONDRA POSH

...March 10, 2051  Monday
 
So diary today Monday I woke late
For work. I thought no problem I just
Call in. I called Mister Idris Moorah.
He said, Diondra I'll be brief. We're 
Downsizing, you're...

Man-Employment

...Man-employment 

On the way to the bank this morning
four workers were shuffling pebbles into big buckets
carrying the load down some steps 
coming up with empty buckets, filling them up again.
...

Sir Frowns a Lot

...Grumpy, griping all the time,
Out of work without a dime.
Seen around the town a lot.
They call him Sir Frowns A Lot.

Used to work for the city,
Paid off, laid off, what a pity.
Caused his wi...

Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup

...Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!

While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
an...

Mood Indigo

...A shell explodes out of the barrel 
       Of misfortune's gun with a deafening bang. 
            Unexpectedly pink slipped as he was 
    Slowly making his way up ...

Consciousness

...At my tender age, my grandma will tell nice stories from scripture, 
Each story carried a message, be virtuous and do not be ignorant, 
I did not know, what sin was, 
She emphatically told, two si...

Instant Regret and a Dizzy Blank Stare

...a broken phone in the muddy dirt
a neglected charger hanging on a badly worn clothesline
turned down for another loan
everything has been cut off or repossessed
now all my stuff is baking in the ...

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