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Alisa Gordaneer is a writer and editor living on an urban homestead in Victoria, Canada. She's currently working on two novels and a collection of poetry.
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Published Spring 2007
 
resignation fantasy
it will happen in a flash, before you know what you are doing but it will be too late.
you will speak your mind, at last, shout out that no, you will
not
work overtime one more day you will
not
take the boss's drycleaning pick up his kid put up with his crap and
furthermore
you will
not
be blamed for the photocopier malfunction when everyone knows
it was harrison's butt in that copy found in the recycling bin as
everyone knows you are
not
the one who keeps taking paperclips who keeps coming in
late who keeps charging long distance on their line but you
will henceforth
do so for the next three hours
until five pm and your release from this living hell you will
toss office letterhead like confetti
spill all the coffee mate in the kitchen
run that damn drycleaning through the shredder
and tell them all
finally
after years of silent
acquiescence that everyone took for agreement, even contentment
that you are
not
a machine.
(outside, the air will feel like freshly washed silk, your face
magically dissolving all those lines, that ten pounds
you’ve been trying to lose since christmas will melt
as you step into a new world, followed by the faint and jubilant
sound of cheers and a growing patter of footfalls
from all those inspired and following—
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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