Applied energy (work)
All creatures that are vertebrate
must work until lungs crepitate.
The weekly grind we punctuate
with weekends that invigorate.
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In fair times we could federate
in unions that would regulate
and make the bosses obligate
to wage scales, we would help prorate.
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If wronged we could expostulate
and sweat shops we’d inactivate
until the bosses expiate
and profits fairly integrate.
292
As populations pullulate
and work places de-regulate
employers we propitiate;
the paymaster, a cold cheapskate.
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We now closely approximate
the slaves we used to castigate.
Our hands from hard work vesicate.
Taskmasters we calumniate.
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Our pay packets we calibrate
so, debt we don’t exacerbate
and bankers can’t expropriate
possessions that we aggregate.
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We hope that we can compensate
our incomes with a tax rebate
to partially alleviate
the bottom lines we rubricate.
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Employment ads fantasticate.
Remunerations they misstate.
Make false claims and interpolate.
The overtime they understate.
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Those of us that matriculate
hope that we’ll be a candidate
for jobs that we associate
with offices that coruscate.
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Superb CV’s we paginate;
at interviews excogitate.
Our strengths we strongly iterate
and loyalty we predicate.
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The unemployed in lines rotate.
We’ve exceeded our use-by-date.
This puts us in a dire strait.
Our self-worth it can vitiate.
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