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Browbeat Starbucks Worker's Poem (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Late stayeth stout hearted Ben
who always works 40 hours and more
stops, gets off the clock, and thinks
well, I'll just sweep the floor

For the store's state of gore sends the man into a tizzy
but its not his own fault that he's dizzy

For the dirt and the grease are naught but Howie's Caprice
as he leaves us so sorely understaffed
left to row up shit's creek without a paddle in our raft

But beware, this is the fate of workers everywhere
woebegone are bosses that care; they're toothless
for capital's agency makes for one bitter regency
and they're gone, replaced by someone more bitter, more callow, more ruthless

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I wrote this one in my head during a shift a few years ago but never wrote it down because I couldn't find no way I liked the line breaks. Would really like some suggestions on how others would handle the line breaks, the punctuation, and the capitalization. Included is a recording so people can hear how it's "supposed" to feel.