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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......

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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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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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Categories: laid off, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: laid off, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member 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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Categories: laid off, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: laid off, joy, loss, work,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member 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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Categories: laid off, allah,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: laid off, absence, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: laid off, abuse, age, america, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: laid off, confusion, depression, feelings, jobs,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: laid off, confusion, fear, how i
Form: Free verse

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