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Resignation

by Catherine Shaw

This, superiors,

is to offer you

my resignation.

Too many years have passed

without recompense

and without sentience

too many days,

each one vacant

as the bare vestibule

I pass through

day after hollow day

from or to

the circle of sorry labor

I inhabit,

my subordination.

Automaton, I

go about my work

in mindless quietude,

totting up numbers,

filling out forms,

stacking and stapling-

so efficient!-

but watching every minute

on your grey clock

loiter and drag

on its tired trail

to the tired end of day.

And what of

those dear others

who share my circle

and whose faces match

my own encrypted face?

They are not dear.

Away from here,

they live lives

I can't imagine

in small and singular worlds

that have no use for me.

if there's friendship here,

it's made of shallow stuff,

of pleasantries,

enforced equivalence:

the accident of company!

I soon learned

to be on guard against

such amity,

to cultivate

the ingrown point-of-view,

pruning away

those shoots of anger

and intelligence

that would expose to me

the baseness

of your hierarchy.

It's just as well.

I may be dwarfed

but how much worse

to flare up in my insignificance

and be unheard

and change nothing

and destroy only me.

"I will seek work elsewhere!"

That has been my quest:

a foolish enterprise,

a grail of styrofoam at best.

Wherever I go,

I find your duplicate:

vestibule, paperwork,

watched clocks

and grey-eyed vacancy

What's the good of going?

I'm too weary now

to take my future in my hands

and forge another way.

This, superiors,

is to offer you my resignation.

I'll stay.

The main problem: There just aren’t enough jobs to go around.

Lose a job, prepare for a really long job search
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