Short Workhorse Poems

dont be a nightmare
toiling on and sleepless
a workhorse in the dark...

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Initiative, nor ambition upfront,
Hire him, he’ll be good as my assistant,
I just want a workhorse,
Not one for the racecourse,
A pony’s oft good if not adamant.
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A boss said to his HR head
Limerick |16.07.2024| humour
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Viagra
 
I get irritable over emails about Viagra 
the pill that is about extending the natural evolution   
from stud to an old workhorse.
Everything comes to an end and to make love with 
the help of a pill is artificially pressing the body to go through 
acts it can no longer do alone.
there is some unethical about it as it no longer gives pleasure
only proving the old horse can still gallop....

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   Is man but a workhorse
      to be slowly ground to death

   To slice his limbs to ribbons
      on a slaughterhouse machine

   To breathe in sewer muck and mire
      or hurl on tractor-trailers never-ending tires       

   To toil in anonymity on a thankless assembly line
       or inhale the toxic fumes of an Appalachian coal mine… 

   Young man, learn a skilled trade or train for a profession 
       Life does not have to be misery and depression
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