Saturday, June 16, 2012

Layoffs

Oxford cloth shirts are as indestructible
as he believed his career to be.
His was a buttoned-down theology
of work, an ethic that took the starch
and rendered crisp collared authority
its due. Locked from his office,
he slumped in the pile of rumpled
threads waiting for someone
to see his worth, restore his press.

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