The American Dissident
A Journal of Literature, Democracy & Dissidence

In the Samizdat Tradition of Writing against the Machine

Critical PoetryDavid S. Pointer (Murfreesboro, TN)                                  For more highly critical verse, see Critical Poems.    
 

Writing can show us how ordinary things are very profound along with the social, political, educational, or economic aspects of evolving art.  All of these are very worthy areas to work at as creative endeavors.  After about 12 more hours on this one-I think it is much simpler. I submit it for consideration. I thank you in advance.

 

Another Former Employee...

After shedding childflesh,
I entered the service and
exited the university only to
be stationed in the pre-doomed
employment line of higher education's
unhired applicants, finally coming
to Rutherford/Davidson Counties
where I asked successful teachers
and instructors (over a decade)
how they got their positions
"Friends at church" was the
most common reply, and now
Judge Brandon's wife, Kathy,
a former human resources
employee has accused the
Rutherford County School
System of a "friends hiring
friends" hiring practice. A
school system spokesman,
James Evans, responded
with gladiatorial graciousness
by stating Kathy's "a disgruntled
former employee," and there
aren't enough minorities swimming
"in the applicant pool," moreover
all of this mess gets me to
thinking about Kaci Weakley,
a former state government
caseworker who before leaving
for medical school told me
most people in her office
and the Division of Family Services
in Murfreesboro had earned their
jobs by having already employed
friends get their files pulled
internally for interviews-I
say let's apply the old Roman
law, lex caesaria and carefully
reach into the dying belly of
truth attempting to save the
fetus of facts, as News Channel
5 comes forward to feature
Kathy Brandon's story, but
only within the narrow parameters
of "raced based discrimination,"
and only within the local education
field, but the results of recent
diagnostic testing were not within
the normal accepted range.
Secondary diagnosis and concerns
expressed by the attending
political poet revealed the
possibility  that the umbilical
cord of congeniality was wrapped
around the neck of several
local organizations as corporate
Christ like a referring physician
continues to find a way to
birth mostly middle-class whites
into the organizational delivery
room, and when he couldn't be
reached the safety straps of
labor law were unsecured and
severed while friends with local
facility privileges made their rounds
clamping off the major arteries
of the majority of job applicants
case files receiving  non-neonates
as new hires inspected and placed
in a medium of malpresentaion—a
healthy 105 pound female here
or possibly a fully developed 200
pound male there with each
patient usually tolerating the
procedure well while being
sent to recover in stable
state conditions.


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