Poets' Practice Pad

33. Write a poem about a cashier.

Determined to end the day getting a job, any job
Signs in cafe windows were asking for help
Waitresses, cooks, and cashiers needed
Experienced need only reply
Drats only experience she had was office related work
As it was even office temp jobs were scarce

Walking city block after block, her hopes disappearing
Exasperated she enters a wee sandwich shop
No help wanted sign hung on the window
She was becoming weary and thirsty

A middle aged woman, exclaims
It's about time you got here
Middle aged woman orders the young woman
Down, down many flights of stairs to the basement
Insisting she had ordered the right size

What was she to do, but try on the uniform
She looked like a waif in an outfit 3 sizes too big
The older lady muttering , shaking her head
This will have to do for now

Young women reply's
You have the wrong person
No manpower agency sent me here

Oh, drats the older women apologies
In a split second she was asking the young women
Would you mind helping out over the lunch hour

Young women thinks how hard could this be
Okay I'll work the busy lunch hour

Days later, she is still working in the wee sandwich shop
A cashier she is being trained to be
It was near end of her shift, her feet wear sore
Shifting from one foot to the other for relief
She accidently tripped the middle aged women
Whom went sailing in the air

A week later young women is still cashiering
Running the shop, middle aged woman is absent
Middle aged women sends her a thank-you card
Which read

"Thank-you Deary for the good job you are doing
I'm having a wonderful holiday
On compo and won't be back for a good six weeks!
Keep those girls busy till I get back!"

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