dark rivers with dark waters
of sweat and turmoil —
the working-class in matching
tie-sets and cufflinks,
consuming the last of the day
on a star-bereft-twilight.
the venus doesn’t rise
in the absence of
a sun-clad, formal
code of conduct.
they carry the stupor-filled
yesterdays, for a soot-layered
enslavement,
to corporate
culture and ctc-callous
calculations (< minimum-wage).
.
© Anmol Arora 2018
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The minimum wages theory sounds a lot like the iron-law of wages… somehow I had always thought we had moved a little bit pass that, but in the end it will always return
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I know the feeling of minimum wage job. I have to work 2 jobs to earn and provide for the family. It sucks and its frustrating. I really enjoyed the creative language in your work my friend.
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touch of ‘the grapes of wrath’ here and these lines were brilliant
“tie-sets and cufflinks,
consuming the last of the day”
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The woes of the mundane robbing man of individuality and spirit…nice word weaving
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A clever and touching rant regarding the fate of so many–a touch of the leaden-eyed here. I cringe when I see the job polls, knowing how so many are minimum wage positions.
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Nice description: “dark waters
of sweat and turmoil”
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One word. Wow! ❤ Love the use of luscious imagery especially; “tie-sets and cufflinks,
consuming the last of the day on a star-bereft-twilight”… surviving on minimum wage is nearly impossible 😮
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I feel those working class sweat and turmoil. Unless you got a good position and contract, you get the minimum wage with hardly any benefits – modern enslavement.
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Inequity…seems it has no end.
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A touch of reality here..minimum wages akin to enslavement. Love this!
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I haven’t ever not earned the minimum wage! And yes, it is enslavement.
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It’s the sad reality of the working class.
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kaykuala
for a soot-layered
enslavement,
to corporate
culture
How appropriately described HA, of modern day work ethics as imposed by the greed of entrepreneurship to the unfairness towards the downtrodden. In fact there is still a lot of contempt for those unskilled kept alive by a minimum wage structure.
Hank
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Money talks, as they say…it mostly says “goodbye”! I always liked ABBA’s music 🙂
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love how you weave the glitter and glam of worldly trappings between the chains that bind us like slaves, you are an amazing wordsmith!
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This is a continuing story that seems to have no good end. (K)
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