Severance

envelope

containing all the words they wanted to say

and all that remained unsaid

leaving a tiny, smoothed out hole in my heart

as small and round as an earring piercing

the slimmest paper fold

my final check

a reminder of the non disclosure agreement

I never remembered

my name in small, hesitant letters

there were probably tears

but the paper is unblemished

cuts

but the envelope is pristine

I will

never work again

not in an office with a white suit

bending my mind to the

four sided shapes

the geometry of code

the final goodbye

in one

envelope