What first greeted me
upon entering that room
were the sad, quiet faces
as we all sat around the table.
.
Thinking of her,
wondering why
and what happened
and some of it came out later.
.
But what was also on my thoughts
was finding out how management
had known about it all day long
as they readily pursued their disturbing calculation
.
In getting a full day’s work out of us
before breaking the news.
Brad Evans lives in the UK working as a community library assistant. His work has most recently appeared in Studio La Primitive, Northampton Poetry Review, Backlash, and The Journal.
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