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 !!
Update on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by
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.
