Daddy’s Lost the Job He Had
"Daddy's Lost the Job He Had" is a poem told in the voice of a child just shy of eight years old, whose father has lost his driving job and now earns fifty cents a day carrying an advertising sign. With Christmas approaching, the narrator and younger sister Bess quietly set aside their wishes for a tree and candy, watching their mother fret over rent, dwindling flour, and coal sifted twice to stretch it further. The poem captures the quiet dignity of a family under pressure, as the children pray in secret for their father's luck to turn.
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