Lifetime Achievement Award

Why are we on this train?

Why is it ok and lauded that we are awake un-naturally
in the morning, before our bodies, minds are ready
and half asleep standing up in droves on a train...

her golden flat shoes are all I can gaze upon.

Why is there this set time for work.
Why must it be from this hour to this hour.
Who's deemed this, who's made this our life?

"Because work needs to get done, miss", I hear
emanate from one of you suits.  Well, listen-

Why the long standing set hours of work,
moving faster than the speed of light
causing our brains to flap in the wind, loose tarps
flesh enfolding
getting whipped by the breeze as the cargo trucks
zip to and fro, carrying nothing of worth,
particularly? To what end?

"We work more, and work faster so we can make more money".
I didn't ask, but thanks for the clarification.

Still, why ruin our bodies, our hearts growing rotten
stinking of boredom and stasis, to make More Money...
Why not work less and require less and exist more fully.

(...)

Hello?

(...)

No?

(...)

No one gets the completely simple logic of that?

OK, then.
Actually No.  This is Not O.K.

Who told you it should be this way?
Just where is that holy book, or voice from the mountain
or hidden scroll which states that this is correct?
Who's made this our life?

We have.


M. Lucia