Work Harder

Are you working hard enough?

(A Hard Life By Chris Bunton)

Work harder
and pull those boot straps.
You’ll have the dream, they say
you’ll get fatter.

But not today;
today you’ll tighten your belts.
You and your kids will wait
for a future time to play.

Work yourself to death
and we will take a third.
A little more here.
A little more there.

Work harder,
get 2 or 3 jobs, partner,
and we will take a third there too.
It’s all being done for you.

We’ll live high on the hog,
while you barely scrape by.
We’ll force you to obey the law,
while we get away with it all.

This poem is an excerpt from my poetry eBook “Against The Man“.
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Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry eBook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery…