Work Rat Race Poems

Keeping up with the Jones I still try
It's dog eat dog neath a vicious sky
All the finer things that you demand
This rat race has gotten...

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Friday is really Monday
But for Earth's sake, let's talk Monday
The day after Sunday
We all know, that one day

That stereotypically they dread
It's truly all in one's...

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7/11/21


Never been the smoothest talker
Got to make the best of it before I need a walker
Had a lot or nothing to offer
Wasn't always worth the...

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In his mind he makes his plans
  So many things he'll do
To finish each and every one
  He'd surely need four hands

He starts...

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Feather 

Life has it's moments
You know, good and the bad
But some of the best times I've ever had
Are those when I've stopped
At the side of...

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They don't call it the old rat race
  
   ~ on account of its furious pace...

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Lab Rat Race - 




Well it’s a hard pill to swallow
that we aren’t promised tomorrow;
but the rent is still due today. 
Sure, you’re losing your...

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Gotta go here. Gotta go there.
Do this. Do that.
I appear and disappear
Through our atmosphere.
Now at my habitat
Gotta go here. Gotta go there.
All for my career.
I...

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Angst
        Pressure
     Tension Builds
  Nerves Tautly Wound
Stomach's Knot Tightens
   Imminent Deadline
...

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Parents control what their kids are taught
It's not a matter of them wanting to or not
Go to school and get a job
That's how people pay...

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Every day there I am, out there.
Smartly dressed, all smiles, like I care.
Trying to fit in a world that has no fittings.
Standing straight and decent,...

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When that alarm clock goes off 'fore dawn's crack
And you pull your achin' bones from the sack--
Then you start havin' you some real doubt,
If this...

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Today’s world keeps moving at such a fast pace,
Is it surprising that life has become nothing more than a rat race.

Most days seem to be...

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We'll work meg a years in the rat race of life,
When we're quite young we deal with the strife.
With a boss looking on we watch...

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