Job 

 Application 
Jubilation 
Probation 
Subjugation 
Approbation 
Congratulation 
Coagulation 
Intimidation 
Culmination 
Condemnation 
Litigation 
Termination 
Extermination 
Exciting maturation 
Of exasperation and 
Furious purgation, a 
Kind of emancipation! 
 Work until the last second 
Work until you’re a legend 
Work until the undoable is done 
Work until the end of your hope 
Work until you become a whore 
Work until you’ve lost your conscience 
Work until your blood has lost it ambiance 
Work, work, work, until. . . 
 Time has delivered hours and decades 
Swallowing vigor, vitality, viscera decadent 
Like a humongous black widow, 
crouching hideously 
As the pseudo- humans watch you 
They ridicule your plight behind your back 
While clucking their tongue in sympathy 
 You bleed alone All alone 
All alone Darkness spreads around you 
Like a monstrous octopus 
Like a ignominious tarantula 
In its horrifying viscosity 
You falter and fall into the doom 
Into the cantankerous chasm 
Like a boy in a rattling circus train gone crazy 
 You hold your breath and look for your siblings and daddy 
For your magnanimous friends and family 
Then you turn around and see their 
Contorted faces chiding you 
Admonishing you 
We’ll not pardon you 
You’re at fault Shame on you 
Shame! 
Shame! 
 I look up with my blood-shot eye into the oblivion 
Can I search for a beginning at the end?

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