Napowrimo 23

Prompt: Write a sonnet!

Lady Sisyphus

What did I do to earn this nasty fate?

I’m working at the bookstore on the weekend,

Organizing magazines that hate

To stay put on the shelves. I’ll have to spend

The evening setting chaos into order,

Laboring like Sisyphus in vain –

There’s always one more porno in the corner

The boulder’s rolling down the hill again.

This is my punishment for asking questions

When my lot in life is just to nod

My head, absorb another of life’s lessons,

Accept my place beneath the boss, my god

For these eight hours of my life. As long

as I am poor I’ll have to play along.