Alarie Tennille's Blog: Alarie's Poetry and Point of View - Posts Tagged "layoff"

Welcome to my new blog!

I've been celebrating Poetry Month the way I celebrate poetry all year, by reading and writing it. I won't be posting a lot on this blog until I get a larger following.
However, I want to invite you to visit and like my Facebook page for Alarie Tennille - Poet, where I've been posting at least one poem a day this month. Since this is my first post, I'll leave you with my most recently published poem, "Layoff":

http://kentuckyreview.org/poetry/2014...

Layoff


It feels like divorce.
While you popped open
anniversary champagne,
your spouse changed
the locks, siphoned off
the accounts, left you
for a younger model.

You’ve slipped off the axle
of expectation, skidded
into an alternate universe,
wrecked in a pileup that took
out half your friends.

You wake from that familiar
dream of going to work naked
to find yourself stripped
of skin and ego. What to do?

You imitate your smile, pump
up your résumé, and tell the mirror
it’s only a job.

© Alarie Tennille 2014

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Alarie