Pleased Yet Awful

The first half was comfortable
rested like a zoo animal, feeding.
Careers suspended in a green limbo

Written instructions received
the new goal is a real killer
Wednesday's words ripping heads apart

In the end, adrift of safety,
the jaws of work lay him motionless
dragged further into man's own lair.

-- J. Niklasson

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