Tag: work

• SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM

  Get the lead out, lad Get out there and be fed fast; dazzle ’em, show these young turks The meaning of graft, define hard work Leaders or followers, I’d rather be led Primarily, I’d rather be submerged in molten lead until dead – deserved I can’t be a dole drawing twerp And I don’t have…

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  9th Feb 2025

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• how2feelusefulagain

  In order to feel useful I have to work Since when must idleness feel deserved You can’t spend forty days in the desert or Costa will be short a server If the operation was available today, I would willingly be severed Anything to give Focused Me leverage Over Free Me, about as attentive as a…

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  9th Feb 2025

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• RIGHT NOW 

  Ten fifteen  Waiting on a Chinese Tomorrow PIP  Not pleased  But it’s only Will Pop him like a zit Into his comfy coffin  I chose your allotment  Lead you there, spinal shotgun My will greater, I will victor Last longer take a picture  That’s why I make these sex tapes  It’s part of my endurance …

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  12th Aug 2024

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• Escaping drudgery

  You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• W O R K A D A Y A L I F E A D E A T H

  Breaking fast Sonic speed supersonically fast Blue whir mowing autistically across the artistic Landscape, pugilistic instruments primed Any loose-lipped rhymster talks shit Gets whipped, fistically biffed bully beef Cheap as chips – not anymore – price of crypt ticket Better hope you don’t sport a bum ticker After this coffee, shit’ll spill like port from…

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  13th Jul 2024

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