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Itai Bronshtein
Smart Octopus Press
Aug 10, 2024

I can’t do this anymore.

It’s been months since my last day

On that one tedious job,

And when finished it,

No one was happy with the result.

So I kept asking for more and more,

Until one day they fired me.

When I woke up without a job,

Not bothering asking for it back,

I just wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote,

And told them all what a good job they did.

But they hated me,

So they slandered me.

They made the choice,

Using my own words against me;

The job is gone.

Who’s hiring?

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Itai Bronshtein
Smart Octopus Press

Poetry — Torah — Short Stories — Random Articles Sometimes I pretend to drink just to project that Hemingway vibe. It hasn’t quite worked yet.