Shower barely washing last night off you
Try to patch the damage
With moisturiser and muesli
But you're not fooling anyone
Walk in say hi and take your place
In this unforgiving rat race
Where it's not who you are
But what you do, what you achieve
Spend a day of your life
Processing applications for people
Who want half the life you have
Go home and slice broccoli and zucchini
To steam with rice while watching TV
Muting the ads that show rich beautiful
People living rich beautiful lives
Such that even your dreams become ads
For products you will never have
But maybe the wanting them
Will make your life better
Though deep down you know it wont
So you wake again as yesterday
Take your place in this dismal array
Like soldiers in a line
Dreading going over the edge
You wait for that whistle that will send
You to your glorious end
Giving your life to the grandeur of capital
That's what your headstone will read:
Spent your time making money for someone else
And all you got was dead.
© shaun patrick green 2011
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