I was thinking when the Boomers all retired,
Gen X would make the world more fun. Oh well.
My timeline, my assumptions–shot to hell.
I wish I’d known all this when I was hired.
There’s just so much I am so wrong about.
But I’m sure of this: however much the Gnostics
redeem the fall of Eve (and bless them for it),
the curséd part of work will not wash out.
Thorn and thistle, labor, sweaty brow–
an ever-expanding to do list (not quite cancer)–
let’s do our very best, let’s make it count–
I’m remembering how lazy I was when I was a child….
Work might be how I pay my fucking bills.
Work isn’t why I’m on the fucking planet.
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