So after you get fired, it's like the "Noon's World."
"The day is full of people, sun, walking around the staring noon
of paid endeavor.
It is a shock to someone who has slept apart
all morning in a shaded room to come out into traffic.
I am hopelessly in arrears.
I try to catch up on the action, eat a lunch for breakfast,
and pretend.
What have I missed except life?"