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Job that Only Paid the Bills

Janet Kuypers
2/12/17

I told my boyfriend
on one spring day

that I was quitting my job.
This art director, supervised

maybe eight people, designed
two magazines — this was a big thing,

me quitting my well-paying job
that only paid the bills,

and didn’t make me happy.
And when the big day came,

I opened the windows to my
32-storey corner office

and I asked my supervisor
to come into my office.

The wind whistled through the Loop
on these downtown streets —

it was always a breathtaking view,
seeing skyscrapers in the spring.

But my supervisor sat down at my desk,
and before I could break the news

there was a knock on my door.
When I said to come in,

the secretary walked in
with a dozen roses in a vase

as a delivery to me.
I said thank you, and as she

closed the door I looked
at my supervisor, but looking

at the roses, he already knew
the news. I didn’t know

I’d get roses, and it kind of
blew my chance to say I quit,

but it was kind of cool
to get roses on a spring day

for putting in my two-week notice.
At the time, I couldn’t think

of a better reason to get roses,
it was like icing on my liberation cake.

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