A Fair Wage?

The essence
originating
a pay packet
is lean worked
to the bone.

Fat trimmed
to the bone
is not too much
left unprocessed free
for the factory hand.

Both beast and employee
completely boned out
even bones are not
to be given away
sell bones to the dogs.

Bags of bones
made into soup
or ground up
for blood and bone
sweat is not nutritious.

Workers sweat through
orchestrated job losses
necessary efficiency which
provides company executives
bigger greedier slices of pie.

poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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