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Poetry of Issue 9: HAPPY BITCHES

HAPPY BITCHES

She sits on her fat ass

surfing the Internet, visiting for hours,

balancing her checkbook,

reading novels;

no time to give me my work;

she stuffs it in a drawer and waits.

The world revolves around her.

She’s up here fifty times a day

looking in folders and the drawer,

I thought she’d find it eventually.

I got slammed and all she can think

about is her work piling up in the drawer.

The world doesn’t revolve around her.

If you don’t have time to bring my work down,

can you call me, and I’ll stop what I’m doing

and come get it?

Yes!

Bitch.

I choose to stay in my area

and deal only with her on business.

Her loss not mine;

I’ll be happier.

So will I.

Diane Webster

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