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Poetry: Losing your job

To you and the wise owls

On and on we work
complete the tasks we have to do.
Unappreciated, unacclaimed
wondering why our search led us here.
Soon we discover that we're considered
parts of a big machine
and we have been replaced.

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Poetry: Losing your job

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    by Ginger Betzer

    I wished I'd lost my job,
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    Loss doesn't mean Defeat



    Once I arose at five am,
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    by M Pereira

    Time wasted,

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    Feeling the oil,

    On my stained and sullied hands;

    I worked so hard,

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  • 5 of 18

    by Cat Shomo

    To you and the wise owls

    On and on we work
    complete the tasks we have to do.
    Unappreciated, unacclaimed
    wondering why our

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