job hunting
after being laid off
for 2 months
it was time to start hunting
for a new job
so i updated my resume
with all the current facts
and got the tone down right
by fictionalizing myself
to look as if
i’d be an asset
to any business
but going around
from store to store
and company to company
has been unnerving
because
the beauty of being laid off
(if you ignore the slow decay
of your Savings account)
is the freedom of having
absolutely
no constraints
like an animal in the wild
so with every resume
i pass over
to a store manager
i’ve been getting
this uneasy
tension
in the pit of my stomach
because it’s like
i’m handing them
a loaded gun
and i’m not sure
if they’re going to pull
the trigger