Evil Eye Rollers Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Have you noticed?
Evil eye rollers don't blink.
Negative evil eye rollers,
With chips of ice and other attitudes...
Propped and shown on frozen shoulders,
Need not apply to be advocates of cheer.
Not here.
Not in these days and times.

There are too many as it is,
Sneering all over the place...
Occupying positions of underpaid clowns.
Who knew,
They were over qualified and thought to be fools?

If evil eye rollers accepted this,
Why do they gather to protest...
Requesting higher pay?
For jobs yet created but promised will exist.

Why do evil eyes rollers disrespect,
Just to have their way.
Instead of smiling and showing themselves to be,
Leaders of the pack...
Of days often celebrated as 'great'.
But long have they gone to have faded away.

Leave those wishes to backbite.
Focus upon that which is in clear sight.
The only ones claiming brighter days are on their way,
Are the ones wanting it known to be shown...
That a craving for a feast to eat is their creation.
Although...
Seldom does a feast keep one smiling.
Nor does one leave,
Feeling in the best of mental health.

There are too many as it is,
Sneering all over the place...
Occupying positions of underpaid clowns.
Who knew,
They were over qualified and thought to be fools?
Who knew,
That the day would come...
When being thought to be over qualified,
Would put a smile in one's eyes.
As if greatful to be recognized as a fool.

'Your eyes?
They seem to sparkle.
As if you have been preparing to dance.
What has happened? '

~I met someone incompetent,
Who called me a fool.
Because I refused to be a clown.~

'You did WHAT?
What on Earth is the matter with you?
How much were they paying? '