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Open Poetry #40

Slaves to the System

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2007-02-15 05:35 PM

What does it mean to “have a job”?
Simple:
you work for someone else
so you can eat, have a house
and perhaps a few other toys on the side
but as long as it’s a “job”
and not something you would do freely,
something you would dedicate your life to
because you like doing what you are doing
and would not stop
even if you had all the money in the world
and no need ever to do this work,
then you are a slave – to someone, or something:
to individuals, corporations, governments
even to your own business!

The new slave doesn’t wear chains
and is not driven with whips –
too crude, too coarse and yes, too expensive
to maintain slaves that way.
It’s much easier to push them
with a carrot on a stick: a paycheck.
To force them to work at hated jobs
paid as little as can be;
treated as robots and morons
(for the most part)
and gotten rid of (retired, fired, laid-off)
when they are no longer fast enough
or pretty enough.
Or their ass-kissing and loyalty
no longer worth
the cost of maintainance.

Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

1 posted 2007-02-15 05:48 PM

I like it. The angst is a little much but nonetheless I like it.

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