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Pink Slips and Bipolar Vending Machines
...My supervisor is a young, soft spoken Asian gal... Who averted my eyes as she handed me my end of the year "compensation award statement". For working weekends and holidays being an absentee on b......
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Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
pink slip,
giggle, jobs,
Form:
Free verse
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
...Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest Just before logging off for the day, and ready to boogie out of the joint an email landed squarely in my inbox cordially ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
pink slip,
adventure, appreciation, business, fashion,
Form:
Free verse
Another One Left Alone
...Another One Left Alone Just a little rant to say the news from work was not okay! An unattended child was left on a bus somewhere, pretty sure that child had a scare. Twenty-one minutes alone ......
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Miranda Hawley
Categories:
pink slip,
child, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Allow me to Lift the Curtain
...Right up until you were honest I found hope in the regressing of your sentences From fine wine to a poisoned chalice Remembering you in the corner of the grocery store Sparked the overwhelmin......
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Matthew Bailey
Categories:
pink slip,
angst, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Flashback Forward
...Tired eyes within an expression of lies. Modesty sold to both youth and old. Peering out of an unseen future. Days spent in a sweatshop to pay rent on a house occupied by a phantom with no name. ......
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Michael Maul
Categories:
pink slip,
jobs,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Line of Fire
...inside of the line of fire i recognize my mistakes i wish that i would have corrected them earlier a woman's mind and expression while hurt will render you speechless like a broken heart in post ......
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Marty King
Categories:
pink slip,
god, growing up, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Teacher Tenure
...Dear Tenure for Teachers, You need to abolish yourself. Be honorable and do the right thing. Overdose on morphine or jump off a cliff into a den of wild wolves. The good teachers do not need yo......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
pink slip,
school, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
I Outfoxed Them
...They probably thought the elders would go quietly. Everyone over fifty got a pink slip on the same week. But one was not enough. We also received two emails. And a registered letter, letting us kn......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
pink slip,
age,
Form:
Prose Poetry
First Day At Her New Job
...She jumps into the fray Pretending to be witty and bright Hoping someone will like her It is her fourth new job in six months She will probably be hated There are weird smiles already And she......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
pink slip,
mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
As I Dire Breathe
... Got free range to roam in a plastic dome, poorhouse farm The debt fence keeps rooster clock me from payment parachute, golden eggs liberty Oh, such pecking order karma harm It’s ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
pink slip,
humorous, joy, satire, word
Form:
Light Verse
Middle Class Dismissed
... Marginalized middle finger people moving upwardly mobile on a quality-of-life escalator going always down Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers, (them who bring forth weekly ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
pink slip,
anxiety, imagery, jobs, symbolism,
Form:
Tristich
A Night In Somnia
...I spent a night in Somnia which put me to the test The lodgings were luxurious but I could find no rest They said it was a quiet town I fell for all their ploys And all the stupid sheep I tri......
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©
Michael Wise
Categories:
pink slip,
humor, sleep, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Robert Trezise Jr.
Categories:
pink slip,
america, change, courage, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
The Pink Slip
...The love me and you shared expired years ago The many times I spent attempting to love you Didn't really mean anything to you so my love we are through Just like a plague you destroy everything yo......
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Zarion Lovelace
Categories:
pink slip,
12th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Smack Talking Turkey
... What kind of gobbledegulp, holiday mess, are you stuffing down your jaw giblets — one day early ... you human turkey Cubicle farm-raised patsy policies is what your top executive......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
pink slip,
character, humor, satire, word
Form:
Light Verse
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