Can days be merry
and bright? Jobs – like ornaments –
fragile, out of reach.
Unemployed Christmas
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Not among the 6%
“Let’s go to the beach!”
One kid, online, shrugs as the
other keeps texting.
“In a typical week, only 6 percent of children ages nine to thirteen play outside on their own.”
from The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger
Already mid-July
And so summer goes
like fishing line cast into
swift moving waters
Job search
Panera’s didn’t
call, nor Applebee’s. Rejec-
tion’s hard at sixteen.
Senior Ball
Formally over
twelve years of learning to look
good on this one night.
Study hall
The play was about
them. His unrequited love
her indifference.
Hard Rock Cafe, Niagara Falls
All around it, the
town is dead. Pity the poor
taken investors.
Inexplicable sadness
In wordless despair
M dissolves in tears clutching
me like a life vest.
Laptop
An adult blankie.
To take one from its owner
will make grown men cry.
Why I need to sleep
When I stay up late
my thoughts move oddly like lab
mice stunted by drugs.
a haiku a day 