Business
Typewriters typing business letters
to the business world.
Copiers ditto triplicate forms
to run the written word.
Bosses bossing, but doing nothing-
it's absurd.
Where do i fit into this plastic molded world?
A thousand assembly workers forget they have hands
(as workers watch the machines take command).
And upstairs executives make vacation plans.
As a million dollars float around in the wind,
only to fall into the hands of the taxman.
It's a plastic pick me up.
a pill for your worries.
a bill for your wallet.
a kill on your paycheck.
Where do I fall into this
corporate plan?
How do I call myself,
of even feel like a man?
Is it that I'm the only one
who wonders who I am?
Or could it be I'm another part
of I.B.M.?
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Submitted on May 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXBXBA CXCXD XXXX XDXDDEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 5, 4, 8 |
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