OR COMMUNISM COMES TO THE WORKERS VIA THE CORPORATE OLIGARCHY
by dan smith
The wages are the sin.
You struggle and you claw
and you have to listen at work
to the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
The brainwashing machine
gets all the overtime
scrubbing you clean
down to the nub.
They'd like to bring back slavery
but it's not cost effective
and besides they've got it
close enough.
You vote against fellow workers
cause they're eating steak
and not baloney
but they aren't keeping
your wages low, they didn't fire you
or lay you off, they aren't making you
do the work of two or three.
They squeezed you down
and twisted you and now
you've made your fellow workers pay.
Hey, man, can I have a little more
baloney on this cheese?
dan smith is the author of Crooked River, a poetry chapbook published by Deep Cleveland Press. He has published in Scifaikuest, Pudding Magazine: The Journal of Applied Poetry, Paper Crow, Sein und Werden, Kaliedotrope, Dwarf Stars, microcosms, and a number of other print & on-line publications.
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