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Overeducated, Underemployed
By Bentley Snow Davis
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The secretary holds a masters degree.
She's even ABD,
but those aren't marketable skills
Filing, dictation, basic math fit the bill
much better. She could kill
herself every time asking "How may I help you?"
What is an overeducated girl to do
in order to make it through
each tedious and humiliating day?
Already weak self-esteem goes away.
Fear of poverty makes her stay
watching her IQ slowly sink.
It is far too painful to think.
Only obstinacy saves her from resorting to drink -
alcohol costs too much anyway.
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Bentley says: “I am an overeducated,
recovering academic living is a small town in coastal Maine, but I spent most of
my life in the urban Midwest. I spend countless hours reading and writing
poetry as an effective excuse to avoid finishing my dissertation in philosophy. Besides,
living here, there isn't much else to do.
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