vampires
they come along
sucking blood, sucking blood
in dark brand named suits
in dark designer skirts
with pale made-up clown faces
and crimson devil lips
they come along
gurgling their draconian laws
and their half-assed policies
they come along
with clipboards and pink slips
tossing flaccid paychecks
to help quell the loss of precious time
those lousy cocksuckers
with quotas and agendas
with the upper hand
on what’s right and wrong
they’ve come along to time your lunch
to monitor your bandwidth and bathroom breaks
those megalomaniac control freaks
who hang by their webbed feet in the black sunlight
the movers and shakers
of their little bitter world
shaking fragile autonomy
and pride down to its hollow core
leaving the fear to well up
on lost and angry weekends of anxious drama
making or breaking a life
hanging souls by their 401k
hanging souls by their rotten pension
hanging souls by the noose
hanging souls by the balls because they can
rotting ones liver and life
they come along
sucking blood ,sucking blood
until retirement or death comes first
until the marrow is gray and lifeless
on the brittle bones
the once-solid mind a sieve
drip-bleeding the wasted years at their service
those privileged pissy few
those spineless slugs offering no mercy
those fucking vampires
that no stake or garlic can harm
with their reserved parking spots
five weeks vacation paid every fiscal year
and a smile
across a metal desk
that could charm a snake
and kill a soul
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4 comments:
A good one to reappear with. Very impressive.
hah you still believe in retirement in America? it's just a matter of time and they'll kill that last bit of hope too, don't worry.
;)
nice to read you back
stephanie
stephanie, i've always viewed retirement as a myth. no one believes me, but my claim is that in 10-15 years the U.S. will begin installing morgues at work for when people die on the job.
Welcome back.
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