Copyright © 2003 LeeAnn Heringer

the engineers I didn't hire


I stop at whiskey
& vodka kamikazes
while you, apparently,
embrace LSD, ecstasy,
& the colors of a 12 beat jazz.
you insist on telling me
how it’d helped you finally resolve
your relationship with your mother.
you have a plan to bottle adrenaline
mixed with pinenuts for world peace.
you’re just hovering, bumblebee-like,
killing time in your 20s
here on the west coast.
in 5 years
you’ll be teaching
Buddhism & anime cartoon techniques
along the Ganges funded by
the millions from your first startup.

your references tell me
you have maturity issues & require
someone to train you to respond
professionally to disappointment.
at your last job, you created
a computer virus & released it
to show your employers
how vulnerable they were.
you insist I buy your source code
you wrote in your bathrobe.

I no longer need to look to Webster’s
for the definition of hubris.
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