Friday, January 22, 2010

NSIILTOBIGOTB




I can’t seem to get to work today

so I might as well do this

instead of scrutinizing the profile pic

or checking out that new contraption

that scrutinizes the profile pic. See that?

It’s difficult to tell if the cuteness

would fall off the face

if the glasses fell off the face, too. Does

anyone have sex with glasses on, anyway?

No!


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nerds are so popular now. I blame

credit default swaps & DIY whatever. The coolest

nerds don’t do a heck of a lot of work –

they just make people laugh

or they’re paid for what they know

not what they do. I took off your glasses

& kissed you. Marshmallows, ummm

fabric softener, winter &

who’s your favorite?

Nerd, I mean.

Oh wait, wait, wait, you might not

have had glasses on at all


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there’s good work & bad work.

But there’s good work done poorly

& bad work done well.

It’s so hard to tell what work is your work

& most of the time it doesn’t matter

to anyone but you


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pick me!

That was a waste of time, huh?

Pick the best for the job, the

person you think would do the

best job


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once you actually start working on

the thing you don’t want to do, it’s not so bad.

Sometimes I trick myself!

I’m a Jewish paralegal

working for a Nazi malpractice firm – file

boring under totally, file masturbation under why not?

I’m an asthmatic serf who’s good with a knife.

I’m park wolf / part sioux chef from Manhattan.

I’m the first paper cut


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fall off the face of

the face in the mirror

tuck & roll

into the break room

4 comments:

Kate Wyer said...

I'm curious about your methods... does this all come out at once? It seems both unplanned and very planned and that is almost impossible to do. Dude, I'm kissing your ass, but you are becoming my fav poet, for real.

Justin Sirois said...

I'm going with unplanned. I just thought, I'll write about work or job or something and this is what I got.

There's also tricks I play, though -- or rules I follow.

I guess.

Justin Sirois said...

jobs

lauren bender said...

tuck & roll indeed. what a visual.