ODE TO THE WORKING MAN
Poverty cripples
The working man,
His ode is
A dirge of pain;
A sullen, eerie,
Chilling refrain.
Life can be so fine
For the idle rich,
Yet all they ever
Seem to do is bitch;
They bitch about
The union reps,
They bitch about
The working man;
They bitch whenever
He makes a stand,
Yes they bitch
Whenever they can.
The labourer slaves
His life away,
Without a whinge
Without a bitch;
The trade unions do
Their level best,
To see things move
Without a hitch;
They only go on strike
As a last resort,
Yet when they do
We get overwrought.
The unions seek
A better deal,
For their members
For the working man;
Yet all we ever hear
About them,
Is libel, slander
And defamation.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
One of my earliest surviving poems.
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Written on 1974
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 28, 2021
Modified on April 08, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 12, 12, 8, 3 |
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