full time contracts are becoming like extinct breakfast cereals

full time contracts are becoming like extinct breakfast cereals

 

 

adjunct interest

playing for keeps at little cost

payment rendered for goodbyes

 

a "see" note

scribbled and placed

next to the unused coffee cup

and the shunned slice of toast

 

 

he feels he was hired short term

and now has been let go

for another, less expensive love

who won't care

 

that she never stays for breakfast.

 

 

erin-cilberto

11/21/15

Reviews

[Autumn Lyric]

Aren't most people always looking for the next best thing.? Jobs, cars, houses, spouses?? What is here today will be gone tomorrow. The contract is getting where it's cheapened or sweetened.. sadly these things extend even to the most promised of relationships in all aspects of life. ..no one is exempt from being replaced at a moment's notice. Interesting write...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your insightful words, LaShaye...

j.

[Davidgeo]

Thought this spam from title. Interesting combination personal/professional expectation.

Temporary essence of situational supplemental but permanent require for the supplemental in general, when face put to situation expendable essence become sad facts.

I enjoyed

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for the kind words,

j.

[rubie]

terrific piece....

it's so sad that the adjuncts are usually the most loyal and passionate, yet the most under appreciated and always taken for granted.

great word play!! :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, rubie.

j.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Happily-ever-after is a notion that was sold to us by fairy tale creators (and just about every purveyor of fiction, since then) there has always only been for-as-long-as-it-lasts. Once, it could last for as long as 50 years. Of late, far, far shorter gigs.
Entertaining and thoughtful read, Jacob!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, far far shorter...thank you so much for reading my words and for your insightful comments.
read moreyes, far far shorter...thank you so much for reading my words and for your insightful comments.

j.

[B]

Sometimes we feel our hearts are being paid for
and treated in such a cheap manner
It is so appalling what some people manage to have themselves do ......

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Nisreen...

j.

[AYVID N]

This was put so brilliantly. Amazingly penned.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, DIVYA,
j.

[dan]

Love IS a contract and in this disposable world you don't hear of couple's reaching their 50th anniversary as much as you used to (and casual love doesn't even, as you suggest, hang around for breakfast). I find myself amazed sometimes that Dee and I have been together 23 years. We are dinosaurs! Outstanding piece of writing, jacob. take care...dan

[jacob erin-cilberto]

23 years in this day and age is wonderful...you are dinosaurs that fit together exceptionally well.

thank you for your words, dan...

j.

[dan]

Thank you jacob. Going through hard times is a whole lot better when I get to do it WITH my love AND best friends (I guess I have to by her one of those double rock new rings they're pushing), plus I get to come here and read great stuff. Thanks again. take care...

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Now, THIS is brilliant! I love how you take something seemingly unrelated and equate it to love. A contract indeed! Both parties have to be mutually accepting. If not, the contract is easily broken. Hell! For that matter, even in this day and age, even if one signs on the dotted line, it doesn't mean that it lasts forever. It's a sad testament of our place in time.

Great job!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Linda Marie.

j.

[redzone]

reminds me of the Carol King/James Taylor song; "doesn't anyone stay in one place anymore" or something along those lines.. not sure I like the idea of "contract" though, too possessive and domineering... but the idea is good especially when done from the view of an "adjunct" as metaphor... guess I look at it more as "commitment" a voluntary thing... but the question of why has this become less these days is something to ponder.. it's a good poem Jacob

redzone

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"so far away...." yes, from Carole's Tapestry album...great song...

i really appreciate your insights, Curt....thank you.

j.

[annalysiar]

This is a good poem, nicely felt about a partial love. Short and sweet.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words,

j.

[annalysiar]

You are more than welcome