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The last time<\/strong>
\nHe punched<\/strong>
\nA time clock<\/strong>
\nIt was time to stop<\/strong>
\nA feudal gesture<\/strong>
\nAccept that<\/strong>
\nIt got him fired<\/strong>
\nUp to his passions<\/strong>
\nEyes wide open<\/strong>
\nAfter halving it awe<\/strong>
\nAnd feeling dread<\/strong>
\nIn the mirror mourning<\/strong>
\nShuddered into pieces<\/strong>
\nHaving watched<\/strong>
\nHis life<\/strong>
\nGo bye<\/strong>
\nAs hows divided<\/strong>
\nAgainst won self<\/strong>
\nBut now<\/strong>
\nHappening upon him<\/strong>
\nTo be<\/strong>
\nRe-billed every moment<\/strong>
\nA knew<\/strong>
\nYet know longer<\/strong>
\nBuy<\/strong>
\nSordid clock suckers<\/strong>
\nAnd boorish time machines<\/strong>
\nTransporting too distant years<\/strong>
\nNever wanting<\/strong>
\nSuch promise<\/strong>
\nA-trophy<\/strong>
\nRe: tired<\/strong>
\nToo due much<\/strong>
\nAs everything ails<\/strong>
\nIn the passed<\/strong>
\nHaving shown up<\/strong>
\nToday<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is perhaps an appropriate Monday poem for many of the wage slaves working out there.\u00a0 The first theme addresses one of my grate pet peeves in modern capitalistic culture of most daze experiencing the violence of an alarm clock to get out of bed, usually to work for someone else.\u00a0 The evil genius and efficiency of replacing a human taskmaster with an electronic device in which wee dutifully assure our appointed time as “shown up,” speaks the the successful internalization and colonization of our lives by bosses.\u00a0 Most spend most of their waking hours at a job, or jobs, that most would leave if they felt they could.\u00a0 Many would rather be sleeping.\u00a0 Some may find it difficult to find the difference between a-little-too droning-on working and a-little-too fitful sleeping.\u00a0 We sell ourselves wholesale, some might say prostitute ourselves, for the promise of what remains.\u00a0 This poems overall theme is about trading now for the future.\u00a0 This can be a dangerous busyness — sometimes as dangerous as living fully in the now!\u00a0 The strange paradox here is that the danger of seeking predictability and security in life is often the very thing that robs us of life; while a passion-driven now may bring a careening future routinely beyond prediction, such a future is a more lively and life-filled future than the promise of conventional wisdom’s financial security and touted freedom from uncertainty.\u00a0 The present is uncertainty, and the freedom this entails.\u00a0 Inasmuch as we recoil from uncertainty, we make ourselves vulnerable to the purveyors of branded futures, featuring proprietary properties, that are designed to convince you to sell today for tomorrow — or more commonly, a paycheck every two weeks.\u00a0 Granted, a few folks experience the serendipity of their passions now lining up with their various bosses (or co-conspirators).\u00a0 Still, the inescapable equation is that quality of life is directly tied to how often you show up for your own life, that is compared to pawning your life for money or a boss’ designs on your own.\u00a0 May your life be shown up by an incredible series of presents.<\/p>\n

P.S. This is my 500th blog entry.\u00a0 I better watch it or I may be considered productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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