Truth and Maud, a modern allegory
by John Bart Gerald
Cover graphic by Julie Maas
First edition 1987
Moody Maine, J.B.Gerald & J. Maas
68 pages, perfectbind
ISBN 0-941917-11-8 $7.00
Some copies currently available at $20.00@
It begins...
Truth's life as an adult began with his first paid employment and had endured twenty years, despite the hundreds or were they thousands of little murders along the way potting months and years with joblessness. It was as though some Divine military censor had read his job resumé, but before his life started, and snipped at random, leaving casual abysses of paperless squares for him to fall through into his favorite only armchair, unemployed.
Truth, a computer blank. Truth, a walking deletion.
If a productive life is in any way like a shooting gallery, Truth found himself alive and dodging amid the ducks, clowns, balloons and kewpie dolls, as maniacs under the fairway lights tickled the triggers of fate and squeezed off round after lethal round at him ! Jobless, he had walked through the rough and smooth, smiling to think that his well dressed briefcased brothers and sisters striding purposefully to fulfill their appointments, were employed because of him. Why ? Because he had lost jobs beyond counting, all now filled by less philosophic men and women. In such ways do the confirmed jobless love humanity....
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© 1987, John Bart Gerald