LABOR DAY

"LOVE'S LABOR LOST?"

from gloriana casey 9-5- 2011

Work's speeding up, work's speeding up!
Oh, dismal Labor Day.
With workers few, that work piles up.
That is the corporate way.

As corporate profits rise and grow
the PUBLIC'S in despair.
Off-shored, cutback for lowest bid.
Good jobs? They are NO WHERE!

Their multitasking kills the brain
while errors FOUL the work.
No cares! Those profits rise and rise,
that is their corporate perk!

Forty hours --- WAS workers' week,
now 60--80--MORE!
Vacations gone and benefits?
The workers shown the door

This door it leads to NEVER- land,
no jobs for young or old,
while corporates sit upon their prize
of Midas gleaming gold.

They cut the jobs but pile the work!
Each worker made a palfrey,
a riding horse, they sit on us.
So yes, we hate them awfully!

But tell you what, oh corporate ones,
and those in Congress too.
This PUBLIC throws distain at you,
and possibly a SHOE!

For PEOPLE built this nation up,
and NOT that Wall St. junk!
They blind our eyes with wooly lies
and think the world, they've punked!

But history does repeat itself
for robber barons too.
For Rage is growing day by day,
we've had enough of you!

So workers of the world, SLOW DOWN!
This robo -signed life kills.
No time for you-- family --or friends,
HUMANITY'S peak thrills.



So whether Union work, or not,
the PEOPLE rise as one.
There's work to do and fine work too,
the rat race kind, we SHUN!

Though focusing on speed is fine
on NASCAR or in trains.
But PRIDE of CRAFT, it needs the time
to flow through human brains!

And workers battered by this speed?
Ideas just fall and die.
This makes a nation widget- like,
UNITED states? A lie.

That PATRIOT ACT, is written now
which focuses on terror.
Perhaps we should expand that line....
add in corporate ERROR!

UNITED we do stand for WORK
and here's a hint that's true,
when corporates meet us on the street
BEWARE. We'll throw our SHOE!

Love's LABOR lost? OH, NO IT'S NOT!
It burns within our souls.
That corporate BELL is clanging now,
and yes, for THEM, it tolls!****



reposted courtesy- gloria casey- alta dena/antebellum corespondent/poet