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+Eager Job
+2023-03-04
+
+***
+
+Surprise federal return check
+with an angel number on it.
+The software
+that helped me prepare
+the damn thing
+said I was getting nothing.
+A trick to lure me into an audit?
+Or did some poor government employee
+look at my form snowed with blank fields
+and mutter, "Let's show her some mercy?"
+
+Jera spins in harvest's yield
+while Gebo stands
+on its hands
+not as a symbol of
+transactions and generosity
+but instead its opposite: stinginess and poverty.
+I looked yesterday at my bank account
+expecting all to have ran out
+since I've gone nearly a year without a job,
+but much to my surprise
+the river had not run dry
+but was right where I had left it; maybe a hundred skimmed off.
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander