Aug 21 2007
My Cubicle My Deathbed
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By Adam Engel
8/21/07
Dying in a dying Empire on a dying Planet the Terror! It started out like — I mean, I did well in
school, college and I didn’t I didn’t know it was either grad school or the Corporate cubicle so the
cubicle until almost mad returned to grad school.
Afterwards, the cubicle, only this time despite scholarships stipends I owed money so
HAD to be cubicle but didn’t if only I’d the courage to — I mean I was young, strong
could have lived anywhere done anything — the rat-hole — absentee landlord — but home
expensive studio-cube 600 dollars then $1850/month this on 10th and B, where Ginsberg
lived and Charlie Parker.
Then the Condition. Transfusion every year or so alright. Then every two months, then one
month, now two weeks.
Disability. But even with my wife’s job insurance and living with relatives not
enough so supplement free-lancing for Corporate PR selling (ha, ha) “Green”
products to clueless “environmentally conscious consumers.”
Work at home — careful: don’t make more than the $1200 Disability allows — my laptop
propped on pillows.
My cubicle my deathbed.
Adam Engel can be reached at
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