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"cdad">Amazon’s worker ants celebrate Black Friday on picket lines, apparently feeling slightly stiffed by their $15 an hour minimum wage for packaging and shipping the world’s goods in a militant and timely manner while a breezy Bezos rakes in all of the credit, smiling in front of the cameras outside of his private jet, self-proclaimed genius, <i>Capitalism’s darling</i></p><p id="eb17">we love the winners, the gamers, the bosses, <i>captains of industry, </i>while we blame the losers, telling them to work harder</p><p id="7527">the rain kept falling, the fighting, the arguing</p><p id="e7c1"><i>money,</i> that inevitable topic — leading catalyst for marital breakdown</p><p id="630f">divorce, disease, death</p><p id="5866">money —<i> you couldn’t age gracefully without it.</i></p><figure id="a03e"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*bbg0TgxhkyyxxFXI-9sShQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@matthewhenry?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Matthew Henry</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-concrete-storage-building-Alzr27LrDLg?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="a0ac"><b>© Carlo Zeno 2023</b></p><p id

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Barely Above Water

In service to the few

the sound of rain, fighting, arguing

money, always about money— you couldn’t age gracefully without it

your body was something to use, squeeze, manipulate

so was your mind, your eyes, your ears — you had only so many years

clock in, clock out, dodging complaints, actioning sales, funneling profits to the top — above your head, above your rank and station, divvied out in Heaven’s corporate headquarters, among angels in suits, while you did god’s dirty work punching numbers in hell

despite what they say, little has changed since the Middle Ages — top two percent trickle down little indulgences to the teeming hordes

Amazon’s worker ants celebrate Black Friday on picket lines, apparently feeling slightly stiffed by their $15 an hour minimum wage for packaging and shipping the world’s goods in a militant and timely manner while a breezy Bezos rakes in all of the credit, smiling in front of the cameras outside of his private jet, self-proclaimed genius, Capitalism’s darling

we love the winners, the gamers, the bosses, captains of industry, while we blame the losers, telling them to work harder

the rain kept falling, the fighting, the arguing

money, that inevitable topic — leading catalyst for marital breakdown

divorce, disease, death

money — you couldn’t age gracefully without it.

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