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Servitude

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THIS is what we have been reduced to...

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Servitude

Literally a slave
if you need a wage
you life is not your own.
Many of your thoughts
are not.  You replay the day -
        inefficiencies
              stupidities
                    indignities
iniquities of The Master
your Ten Commandments.
You are not your own.  And
the more you want to own
the less you are your own.
You pay with pieces
of your SELF
in order to obtain
subsistence pay
and attempt imitation
of the gluttonous display
of The Masters who make use
of all the Poor,
the Poor can produce
to drive the wage down
as living costs skyrocket
and The Masters gag
on the staggering profit.

 

 

Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).

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Re: "Servitude" by Munich on Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:47:28 PM