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Recession Hymn: I Own the Store…by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Depression and Hope,Gritty Katzman Chicago Stories,My Own Personal Hell,Philosophy,Poetry & Prose,Rage!,Retail Purgatory — Bob at 11:42 am on Wednesday, March 11, 2009

© March 2009 By Robert M. Katzman

 

I’m that guy

You pass my windows

But

You don’t know me

I’m that guy

Been there Forever

I own the store

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Bad News From Beautiful Women #(1)…by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Philosophy,Poetry & Prose — Bob at 12:30 pm on Friday, March 6, 2009

 

 

 

© February 2009

 

 

 

Bad cut

on

My leg

From a

Rusty old nail

 

Swelled

Like my knee

 was

Blowing a bubble

 

I

Slowly limped

into the

ER

Frightened

Seeking

A pill

and

A smile

 

The grey-haired and serious

Intake lady

Lifted her glazed eyes

from her

Beeping computer

took

one look

At my pregnant knee

and

Knitting her eyebrows

 

Like she was

Makin’ a baby’s sock

 

Put down her pen

and

Made a call

 

 

Big white  

Hospital doors

Crash open

and

Out came

this

Vision

this

Scandinavian

Goddess (Read on …)