13.5.05

My First Day At Work

Paint your face
Join the race
Tread on toes
For standing space
Shed your tees
Get those stripes
Buy a set of
Sweetened knives
Learn your manners
Lose your roar
Never mind
The dirty gore
Now you’ve learnt
Your money’s bred
Are you shocked
Your soul is dead

8 comments:

Words Worth said...

My favourite. Succint. Controlled, assertive, powerful rhythm.

Russell CJ Duffy said...

i have no pithy or intelligent comments to make but i really like this.

Anonymous said...

nice

Senthil said...

Cheerful workplace, eh? :)

Bloody good poem, though.

Abhishek said...

like this

Sushil said...

Very nice, very true...
the 'real' world...great stuff man!

Cheers,

Sushil

R said...

awesome.

Sujit Debnath said...

Shows the real workplace.... nice one...