Dealing with a Lay-off? Try Poetry
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 
If you find yourself recently laid off, you will soon discover a myriad of employed people giving you advice on how to "cope" with your situation. My favorite bit of advice came from a mental health professional, the suggestion was to find a positive coping skill: like poetry. Funny I would have guessed that she would have suggested getting another job, but whatever?
Do people even write poetry anymore?
I decided that it might not hurt to try it. Worse case scenario, I suck. If I suck at poetry and/or hate it then I am free to go back to my main positive coping skill: screaming at the top of my lungs in anguish every time I hear Elizabeth Hasselbeck open her full of cow feces mouth on the View.
I started out with one of the small non-threatening forms of poetry: the haiku. Please try not to weep at the beauty of my words:
Assholes Aplenty
Sit and talk shit, they booted
Me before I quit
Wow.
Now your turn, you write me a beautiful haiku, and leave it in the comments. I will read each one and treasure them always.
In case you don't know what the format for a Haiku is off the top of your head:
3 lines
~the first with 5 syllables
~the second with 7 syllables
~the third with 5 syllables
Good Luck !!
Scarlette
It was brought to my attention that my Haiku might have been a little harsh.
There are plenty of people at my old job who aren't assholes at all... In fact I consider them to be good friends.
The point of this post was more or less humor, and to capture how freshly laid off people feel.
poetry, positive coping skills, surviving a lay-off in My Life 
Reader Comments (10)
Ain't right what they did -
to a woman with three kids;
those coldhearted creeps
Thank you!
This is really working, I am feeling better and better!!!
I sat in my cube all day my thoughts of places afar
I emailed, made personal calls and worked on my blog on the clock
Those jerks laid me off, who do they think they are.
sucks you got laid off
not as good as getting laid
in my opinion
Wow Kevin, its almost like you know me, and every other person who worked in my department...
thats not a haiku though FYI...
These corporate pigs suck
Take away the coffee in the breakroom, say it's the economy;
But I know that ain't true; they splash around in bathtubs filled with money;
Even plate with gold, their rubber ducks...
Dedicated to Kevin.
Take your severance,
Go buy a new set of boobs.
How fun would that be?
I would guess that the very fun for you aswell deano hahaha
I am cracking up out loud at Deano's. It's even a real haiku. Nice work.
disgusting idea