Just Now Between Positions

These, his last, employers, dead Inexplicably and Unavailable to praise his diligence, Cast a shadow on his prospects, and he sighed. Before all this, he Would have lit a pipe and mused on the past In aromatic mauve tobacco...Shadows Baffled pleasantly the better rug Once a bear. Grizzly bear. He would have enjoyed a smoke with a bear. Hibernation is not unlike a job you fail to love. He would have enjoyed Some banter on, and amiable disputation of, His claim. Or on job loss, in general; On night air, the fanfare above a curve, a star, If suitably asparkle in public.