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You’re kicking back

with a bowl

of Lucky Charms cereal

and watching

a Kevin Smith movie 

on a rainy afternoon;

carefully eating cereal first

then the marshmellows;

when you’ve just been laid off

and a world of opportunities

are staring you in the face

and anything seems possible

but doubts exist

and boredom drops by

on a few occasions

but you determine to push on

is the best course of action

so that’s what you’ll do

and as cool December clouds

jettison precipitation

everything seems absurd

and without real substance

and Camus and Sartre

start seeming more appealing

and realizations are existential

though you still really, really

want to romanticize the plight.     

12/17/98