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Middle Class Dismissed



Marginalized middle finger people
moving upwardly mobile
on a quality-of-life escalator going always down

Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers,
(them who bring forth weekly pocket tears)
Three-piece suit gator claws with Wall Street wolf ears

Kiss-the-ring finger people
trying to climb up the societal brass rung
Getting pyramid food chain hung — 

Pink slip of the tongue
will make the money grubbers
perennial bottom feeders

Green thumb people
got phased out when the New Deal got farmed out signed
Sent dumpster diving by the bottom line  

Escort pallbearers for the corporate pocketeers,
(them who poverty package job security fears)
Downsize pirana jaws with Vegas loan shark ears

Bent index finger people
are always on the hook for the acquisition debt
Bowing and scraping for the quotas to be met

Rube cubicle teacher’s pet love to fetch,
wag the tail ... lick the boot
Being management sandwiched in the middle

Little finger caste people
are stuck in the human resource revolving door
The homeless room always begging for more

Schoolyard sweat factories in need of a Silicon Valley upgrade
got the crypto-chip chimps to put pension skin in the paper mill game
Middle class is dismissed when the ceremonial cut-ribbon fade

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 6/13/2019 5:29:00 PM
What middle finger you're talking bout...Love the attitude in the write...
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Date: 6/13/2019 3:10:00 PM
smashin', freddie.. reminds me of the caste system; you go, dude!..huggs
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