If You Find A Job That Pays Good Money Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

if you find a job that pays good money

yet requires you to be subtly cruel

or maybe not all that subtly

to fellow workers on the job or perhaps

to the 'customers' who are 'underserved'

your residents or other under par individuals

get out save your soul

or else learn to be a double, triple agent

forever on a tightrope for God's angels.

and live at constant risk of dismissal

or quarterly scourging.

mary angela douglas 7 january 2023