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Laid Off Poems - Poems about Laid Off
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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......
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Mike Bayles
Categories:
laid off,
inspiration, loss, march, nature,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Roxanne Dubarry
Categories:
laid off,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Prose
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 ......
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Clinsman Busaka
Categories:
laid off,
america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
I do not know?
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......
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Howard Kerr
Categories:
laid off,
care, change, deep, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
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 .......
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Andre Barnes
Categories:
laid off,
12th grade, africa, america,
Form:
Lyric
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......
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Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
laid off,
work,
Form:
Free verse
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 ......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
laid off,
joy, loss, work,
Form:
Limerick
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......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
laid off,
allah,
Form:
Rondeau
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......
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Val Brooklyn Rogers Blk Panther
Categories:
laid off,
africa, allusion,
Form:
Prose
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. ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
laid off,
absence, anger, anti bullying,
Form:
Blank verse
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......
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Randy Freie
Categories:
laid off,
anger, grief, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
laid off,
abuse, age, america, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme
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 ......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
laid off,
confusion, depression, feelings, jobs,
Form:
Narrative
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......
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Jay Narain
Categories:
laid off,
sin,
Form:
Free verse
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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Marty King
Categories:
laid off,
confusion, fear, how i
Form:
Free verse
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