RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Job Interview”

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Job Interview

Yelps and barks of circus seals

Tenuously balancing sparkling balls

Adequately

But

Not dangerously ostentatious

Don’t ruffle the placid master

Your audience

But then don’t underplay

Even though

Regulations and conventions dictate a certain humility

Statutory interpretation on the trapeze act

The tumble can be wicked

Return to delaying promises and options prudently promised

Optionally false for the survival of the dream bureaucracy depends on that illusion

And the salaries of the wizards and silver haired corporate beggars

Rattle tin cups against the rages of the market

Discretely of course

The pounding on the door louder of nespotitcless victims

Who contemplate the tragedy thought personal

Yet almost universal

Robert K. Stephen

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Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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