Thursday, September 05, 2024

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A Smug, Hard-Working Sonnet

     Hard work is my professional brand.

               —paraphrasing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

I have considerable experience with
post hole diggers; fence building.
Also with putting nubbins of cheese
into mousetraps. I get distracted

quite easily. A mouse and a roach
walk into a tiny coffin-sized hotbox
of a bar and refuse to order drinks,
terrorize the employees and clientele. 

When business is at its calmest you 
might see me running around like a 
chicken with my head cut off. I’ve never 
axed a head off of anything, nor wrung 

a single neck. It’s that protestant work
ethic; the Adderall of my generation.

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