{"id":2811,"date":"2015-06-12T04:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T04:49:06","slug":"working-travails-by-carole-mertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/working-travails-by-carole-mertz\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Travails by Carole Mertz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hiway\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

Working Travails<\/h1>\n

by Carole Mertz<\/p>\n

He likes to maintain a calm temper in the face of adversity
\neven though his hours are reduced
\nand Mellie\u2019s moving away.
\nSo Gregor no longer takes morning coffee with him.<\/p>\n

Even though his hours are reduced,
\nthe manager hovers over him;
\nso Gregor no longer takes morning coffee with him.
\nHe knew the night would be long\u2014<\/p>\n

the manager hovers over him.
\nSomehow the mortgage will be met.
\nHe knew the night would be long
\nsince a woman became CEO.<\/p>\n

Somehow the mortgage will be met\u2014
\nand Mellie\u2019s moving away.
\nSince a woman became CEO,
\nhe likes to maintain a calm temper in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n

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Poems by Carole Mertz appear in The Lutheran Digest, Page & Spine, Rockford Review, The Write Place at the Write Time, and WestWard Quarterly. Her essays and reviews are in Copperfield Review, The Conium Review, Ascent Aspirations, WOW! Women on Writing, Arc Poetry Magazine, Working Writer, World Literature Today, and in various anthologies. Her tips on writing are included in Writing after Retirement, Smallwood and Redman-Waldeyer, Eds. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Carole studied music and fine art in Salzburg, Austria and in Oberlin College, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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