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