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The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n Time was privatized long ago. The executive in charge of what remains, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frederick Pollack<\/strong> is author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure<\/em> and Happiness<\/em> (Story Line Press), and two collections, A Poverty of Words<\/em> (Prolific Press, 2015) and Landscape with Mutant<\/em> (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018). Many other poems in print and online journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Job Time was privatized long ago. The firm that absorbed it, a major multicosmic, plans only to gut and chop and sell it off. Meanwhile, those images you see among our peasantry of smiling Adam walking with a doggy dinosaur are ads, like any faith or flag. Even your and my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20007,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe firm that absorbed it,
\na major multicosmic,
\nplans only to gut and chop and sell it off.
\nMeanwhile, those images you see
\namong our peasantry
\nof smiling Adam walking with a doggy
\ndinosaur are ads,
\nlike any faith or flag. Even your and my
\nown dialectics, gentle reader,
\nare like those ancient signs on kudzued walls,
\ndrawn painfully by hand
\nfor some doomed local brand.<\/p>\n
\nresentful, never at his desk,
\nthinks often of quitting
\nbut where could he go? Beyond the office
\nis no life, only time;
\nas if in a strong wind, he would
\ndissolve into grey dust
\nlike any supervillain.<\/p>\n