Sonnet Substationally Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line (Jack Agueros)

Wow, that is one long title for today's poem by Jack Agüeros. Long like the seemingly endless line at the unemployment office, perchance?

I like the tone of this poem - the ridiculousness of bureaucracy and how not having a job can feel like a job in and of itself. It's simultaneously serious and hilarious.

I hadn't heard of the poet before tonight, but I really like this poem - it's well written and polished, political and yet human in nature and a hoot and yet bone dry serious at the same time. Cool cool.

Favorite line: "The faster you spin, the stiller you look. / There's something to learn in that, but what?"