Poetry: Losing your job - by Moeze Lalji

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by Moeze Lalji

Created on: February 22, 2009 Last Updated: April 29, 2010

Losing your job
In a mountain
Of recession

Is like being
On a highway

With the carpet
Of road
Suddenly turning
Wild
To eat you up

Peace of life
Becomes
Defending life
At the wrong time

All the hairs
At home rise
As the flag
Of the budget
Stars to fly
Low mast

The stallion
Has to be
Re trained
Quick

To find
To win
To settle
New racing grounds

Worries of death
I say

But be brave
One more time

Let us
Playing it again

Even better

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by Ginger Betzer

I wished I'd lost my job,
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by Ryan Anderson

I took my bike to work today new policy, you see
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