I Once Had A Job

I once had a job involving cars and trucks
I helped make them go by pumping the gas
This job was not fun, and I had to move on
Searching intensely with my looking glass

I once had a job delivering flowers and birds
An iris, roses, and tulips in the spring
But I could not deliver a field of poppies
And I couldn’t make the songbird sing

I once had a job of removing the pine
Cutting the weeds and preparing the soil
So began the nursery of plants and shrubs
But the work wasn’t easy and how I did toil

I once had a job guarding the entry to the club
Showing drunks to the door if they caught disco fever
Some jobs for me were clearly not worth waiting for
I severed them cleanly with a swift heavy cleaver

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Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #21. The challenge is to write a poem in response to the prompt card that includes at least five of the seven paint chip words or phrases. The prompt phrase is Worth Waiting For and the prompt words are: field of poppies, nursery, pine, looking glass, disco fever, iris, and tulips in spring.

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