“Desk Jobs”: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began? Why did you do that? The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift. The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. Dorianne Laux, “What I Wouldn’t Do,” from What We Carry (BOA Editions, 1994), and used with the kind permission of the author. Deborah Garrison, “Superior,” from A Working Girl Can’t Win (Random House, 1998), and used with kind permission of the author. Stephen Dunn, “The Last Hours,” from Different Hours (Norton, 2000).. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana, available at sweetgrassmusic.com and used with Mr. Aaberg’s kind permission. This show is available now on most apps, such as Spotify and Pandora: search either by title–Poems for Company–or by KMUN. If you have any suggestions, corrections, questions, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun.org.
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