You get up
You wake up
You put on
Your makeup
Brush your teeth
Tie your hair up
Get ready to face up
To the world outside your window
Take the bus
From the station
With the rest
Of the nation
We work for the capitalist
Organisation
To pay for our
Itemisation
To free us from and keep us in
Isolation
We are the makers
We are the buyers
Who are the takers
And the high flyers
Where are the breakers
And the naysayers
The unions of people
The socialist destroyers
Imagined companies bigger
Than a nation and its people
Ones and zeros in the ether
Worth more than stone and steeple
Paper notes in the bank safe
News and new media spinning yarns for entertainment sake
We’re lapping it up
We’re lapping it in
We are just an experiment
Lab mice in a wheel
Image adapted from photo at unsplash.com