Monday, September 2, 2024

Not again! February 29, 2014

 

Her leaving her post seems to have upset our former temporary boss almost as much as when she left our office, although he tries to keep from showing it around me.

But the more I work with our former temporary boss. the more needy I realize he is and how similar he is to the poet in that he craves a lifestyle that he was not born into

he wants to be an upper west side liberal and a man deeply entrenched in the arts while his roots are blue collar Republican which he hates

at one point, he seemed to have had real success but that has long since passed and now he works back in the news industry as a copy editor and does not seem to have a lot of importance at least not where Management's concerned

like our poet, he has immense amount of talent that he just cannot seem to make into success and struggles in a really strange position where the publishers hate him or and he has only the respect of the writers

I understand why he would be so vulnerable to the attention the poet gave him back in the day when he really was temporary boss and how it must have really been a falling for him when he lost that position and she moved on

I actually think she likes him; I know he loves her.  the problem is that when she left a big part of him died inside

another betrayal although not intentional not on her part but management totally stabbed in the back prior to this and her going made a huge vacancy in him as it did for all of us but he was particularly in infatuated

at one point, in one of her posts or poet praised him and it must have really made him feel like King of the mountain again even if only for a moment and I feel sorry for both of them because in a way they are the most talented people I know and have gotten nothing out of it

 

 


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