In Perpetuity

they say save money,

they say live better,

they say many things
that contradict one another,

so much so that
deductive reasoning has
itself become a quaint notion,

there may be a new sigil,
a new symbol above the doorway
but it still means the same damn things,

three basic beliefs equate to stupidity
no matter now much spark they put
behind it,

it's the giant dick of corporate
f**k you f*****g customers and
employees alike in the brown
starfish subtracted of lube,

starfish were never really red
until they met that metaphor,

yet an untold number of their
human counterparts suffer with
malaise in silence daily, routinely,

practically in perpetuity,

all because employees are
customers sometimes and
the capitalist d***o of steel
wreaks havoc on them,

without the lube of course,

so much for saving money,

so much for living better,

so much for sparking new
interest and ideas and
eventual customer satisfaction,

the spark is dead now as
the smiley face has been
for sometime,

no wonder the paycheck excuse
is such a keen-sounding rationalization,

the majority of them have hit
the wall of glass at full speed
and it has turned them into
red beings beyond the
starfish metaphor,

universal precautions and
personal protective equipment
can't heal those wounds after all,

there's no money for that so
there's no way to live better

Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

The system is flawed because it is tainted by greed, the biggest sin of humans... you certainly go for the jugular and that i respect.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, Dale.

[roarke]

perpetuity, perpetually.....

Only you can put an edge on curly-cue fries....
You're like a velvet glove stretched over brass knuckles... you'd be great in a bar fight.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks so much, roarke.