Word Work

our world worships work

every other word has work in it

we do schoolwork and homework of workbook worksheets

to work work-hours in the workday through the workweek,

but work doesn’t work—would work with some hiring

but jobs are axed like woodwork in The Shining

we’re writing code, automating workloads, drones

sending workers home, to homes they they don’t own,

owing more loans & bemoaning foreclosing

1% rich, the rest are flintstones-ing

new generations informs and engages

get liked and rated but the work never pays us

what good is your wallet when the world’s getting wasted?!

but we need wages to work, and work to get wages…

so how’s that work out when there’s no work to go around?

smiles frown, cities become ghost towns

put your hands up while the Waltons hand down

bank account amounts that could feed whole crowds

who gets to work? it’s determined by your birth,

net worth, network, and then your effort

to get work, ya gotta find an oppressor

for more work, less pay? ya just say yes sir

we have wealth without workers, workers without wealth

we think work equals worth, that if you don’t work you’re worthless

but not all work is worthwhile

and not everything worthwhile is work.

my point’s to point out the poignant disappointment

that if wasn’t for work we could work for enjoyment

stop confusin work for employment, that shit’s poison

traditional employments on a voyage down the toilet

the way our system works causes waterworks

which wrecks the workflow, blood work shows we’re sick

diagnosis is overworked workaholics

drinking chronic bubonic economic tonics

isn’t it ironic: we have work ethic without work ethics

the working class has been dismissed

to slave shifts that can’t be resisted

all ages wondering where their next wage is

it’s guesswork, the stress hurts

we’re coerced to work as unpaid interns n it gets worse

hired work’s burning out like fireworks

we need to rework work to work, and relearn

about life, sharing, caring, and teamwork

to work for what we all need and deserve

work doesn’t work if Miley Cyrus can twerk

and make more money than the real legwork

cut out the perks of Wallstreet queens

oligopoly thieves, playing monopoly sloppily

rollin dice day and night, gettin out of jail free

while worker bee’s jailed for inhaling weed

the poor

get imprisoned or laid off (laid off)

voting in politicians that are are paid off (paid off)

by the banks gettin trillions that they made off (maydoff)

the poor

constant job auctions for officers n army corps

but war for profit’s not an option if your conscience works

corporate whores are worth more than workhorses

and hardworking homeworkers can afford shit

are you living to work, or are you working to live?

we all live inside of a working script

it’s time we decide to edit…or end it

wanna know how? click on this reddit link

Take a moment, stop pretendin, n think about it