Eager Job
2023-03-04

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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.

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