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Your Job is Eliminated - Senryu
by Tony WhitakerThe shock fills their eyes
When I say their job is gone
I feel so alone
06/06/2007
Author's Note: This was a tough week. I had to tell so many people they no longer have a job in our site in the tiny town of Coon Rapids, Iowa. Some had worked over 30 years in this plant. I have been doing this far too long...
Posted on 06/06/2007
Copyright © 2026 Tony Whitaker
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Genevieve Sturrock on 06/06/07 at 04:00 PM oh, Tony, i am so sorry for you and all those people. a friend of mine was 'retired' recently and it came as a shock to her and i thought it must have been equally difficult for the person who had to let her go. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 06/07/07 at 01:43 AM You have really given this difficult job emotion with this senryu - no one is unaffected, for sure. |
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