<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567116" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to the Modern Work-Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>The years, they pass you by<br>Everything you believe<br>Is nothing but a lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>From your neckties to your socks <br>You’re nothing but a slave <br>To pictures in a box. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You live for the Public Eye<br>Your life is but a parody <br>Whose foundation is a lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You strive, and save, and yearn <br>To keep up with the Kamaus<br>Spending more than you earn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You’re nothing but a slave<br>Your dreams are dead and buried<br>Lying in a shallow grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You strangled your own dreams<br>You smothered your own happiness<br>Your hand stifled its screams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>For the camera so aesthetic<br>Beneath the plastic smile <br>You’re pitiful and pathetic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You work yourself half to death<br>Chasing pounds and shillings<br>To swell another’s wealth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>You lived your whole life as a show<br>Yet the only Watcher who mattered <br>Didn’t like what He saw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, wretched modern work-man<br>When you finally died<br>Your surname, and hospital bill<br>Were all you left behind…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tma">Tma</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567116" data-title="Ode to the Modern Work-Man de Tma" data-description="O, wretched modern work-man The years, they pass you by Everything you believe Is nothing but a lie. O, wretched modern work-man From your neckties to your socks You’re nothing but a slave To pictures in a box. O, wretched modern work-man Y..."></div> </div> </div>

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