Life Layoff
...I feel like I’m just floating through time like every moment exists on some line. déjà vu is just a tear in the thread that’s holding seconds collectively storing lifetimes from the beginning to the ...
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Categories:
layoff, blessing, destiny, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Dissuade
...Lonely lost love laid-back,
Loyalty, legality layoff.
Death Dogged down,
Died due for love.
The dissuade love which neither started,
Nor it has an end....
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Categories:
layoff, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Pink Slip For a Generation
...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 th...
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Categories:
layoff, america, change, courage, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Have You Lost Your Job
...Have You Lost Your Job???
Haas your life been filled with
“bad news?”
The job you had…
you will lose?
I’m sure this brings
a lot of uncertainty?
Knowing that very soon…
This w...
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Categories:
layoff, change, depression, hope, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
An Ideal Job
...A satire by Elton Camp
“To find what type of job you are best fitted to and then to secure an opportunity to pursue it, is the key to happiness.” -- John Dewey
For me, it’s now too late to do
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Categories:
layoff, satire,
Form: Rhyme
No Way Out
...We all know someone who has been depressed before.
We might have experienced depression ourselves. Being stressed out has become a integral part of life for many. Possibly we are withdrawn and feeli...
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Categories:
layoff, depression, stress, mental health,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Ideal Job Is Easily Found
...An Ideal Job Is Easily Found
By Elton Camp
“To find what type of job you are best fitted to and then to secure an opportunity to pursue it, is the key to happiness.” -- John Dewey
It’s now ...
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Categories:
layoff, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Layoff
...more the norm than the exception
in this wonderful capitalist rape room
where coming into work can mean
leaving early without a job & a
pink slip, with a pat on the back & a
“thanks for being such a ...
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Categories:
layoff, life, work, day, work,
Form: Free verse
Are You Going Through a Layoff
...Going Through A Layoff???
Are you one who watches
the nightly news?
And hear of the many jobs
people will lose?
Does this news bring to your life
much uncertainty?
Knowing that very soo...
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Categories:
layoff, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Leftovers
...like passengers on the plane who didn’t die in the crash
they twitch with guilt & hope that they will able to stay
one more day
on the sinking ship,
because to be swimming out there
amongst the une...
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Categories:
layoff, life,
Form: Free verse
Off To Work
...Today,
like many a day before,
I packed my lunch,
and headed out the door.
For many years,
every week the same,
in scorching heat,
and pouring rain.
Off to work,
two till eleven,
how ma...
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Categories:
layoff, confusion, life, loss, sad,
Form: Narrative