Words for the Expendable
Due to legitimate concerns for the safety of the company, laid-off employees will be escorted to their cars by security staff.--An Employment Manual
Due to legitimate concerns for the safety of the company, laid-off employees will be escorted to their cars by security staff.--An Employment Manual
On your last
leg through gray hallways past
silent doors observe:
Fractals in the linoleum, the
tips of your shoes, that made
no difference after all.
Your absence will linger
briefly and be swallowed. Bear
your box of stolen artifacts
clanking
a toast to redundancy.
a toast to redundancy.
They say every
seventh year our bodies
grow in new.
Pluck grace
Pluck grace
from wicked nerve.
There through the exit, sky
is in its gloaming,
constellations
waiting to descend.
--Kristen McHenry
1 comment:
A poem for our time. All great, but a killer final four four lines.
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