Work Haiku

Blinking light on phone
Message waiting for person
No longer works here

Processional march
Proud grads approach podeium
To get their plungers

Good value, you say
Outsource ours jobs for low price
It will cost them, soon.

Sunny skies through glass.
Bright sunbeams taunting, mocking.
A slave to the job.

Envelope arrives.
Small print shows small numeric.
This is my paycheck.

Leave youth behind.
Leave college and dreams behind.
Work till you are dead.

What is a layoff…
An escape with severance?
Awaiting my fate…