Ode To The Itinerant Worker
(A Troubling Tale In Modern Times)
It is a punitive life for those that lack money
each day presents a continuing set of problems
trying to tread water in the midst of an ever increasing
under tow
isn’t it punishment enough to struggle each day
wondering how you’re going make it through
to the next day
robbing Peter to pay Paul
until you have completely maxed out all means
and even that no longer works
waiting until your body feels like it’s going to explode
before you can be seen by the doctor in the ER ward
hoping it won’t
and that you didn’t wait too late
how much pushing and pulling
prompting and prodding
provacation and problems
can one person take
before being stretched so thin
till they can’t take any more
lose hope, give up and snap
like a tightly pulled and then released
rubberband
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