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Corporate Lies

When does the day end? Do we know when it starts? Is it the rising and setting of the sun? Doesn’t feel that way in corporate America. It feels like we must follow the sun. Across the continents, around the world Never stopping For capitalism must go on Money is being lost and made On the backs of the middle class Why do we put up with it? Because we know no other way Our Mother’s and Father’s before toiled In the sun Now we think that a computer makes us smart It’s a high tech mule team And we are just scratching out a living They mine the data and sell it back to us No better than the Joads No lesser than a work camp The only difference is we don’t have to migrate To pick the fruit You can work from home Gee, I wonder who thought up that idea? It certainly wasn’t you or me Work after the five o’clock bell What a concept to make our lives hell I won’t do it You shouldn’t do it But if you do then you have bought into A lie.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 12/3/2013 7:28:00 AM
"High tech mule team" you say. Now that's a wonderful phrase. We think it saves time, but it's a trap. love, Kathy
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Stephen Kilmer
Date: 12/3/2013 12:08:00 PM
You bet it is. I live it everyday, Glad you liked the poem. ~Kilmer

Book: Shattered Sighs