DAY LABOURER BLUES
Broken backs and fractured thighs,
Keep on working to appease the wife.
Overworked and underpaid,
No compensation ... you just don't rate;
Toe the line or be brought down,
You're better off Not hanging around.
Meet the demands of the government,
Though you feel dead you're only spent;
A fear of living going round in your head
No point trying, you'd be better off dead.
Feeling shattered to the core,
Your soul has bent, your senses raw;
No hope on Earth of better climes,
You've got no worth so how about dying?
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Poem or song lyric from 1975.
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Written on 1975
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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