Kiss the workhouse Kiss it goodbye Out at last Free from the lie Job satisfaction Wages Social Industry Boredom Conditioning How many people out there are listening? Moan on the dole Clone control Work work work work work work work work – know what I mean?
7th June 2023 – From age 13 until finishing school we were asked what jobs we wanted to do when we left school. How was a dumb boy like me supposed to know? Well, that’s why we had career advice lessons and a beginner’s introduction to the soon-to-be popular ‘buzzwords’. I still quite like this poem.
You sit alone, thoughts in your head What can you say that hasn’t been said? What can you do that hasn’t been done? You know you’re not the only one
What will you do now you’re having fun? Will you look back at what you have done? You gave up the world for your selfish aims So you could carry on with your games
Now I’m asking you what have you done? You don’t know or care as long as it’s fun Won’t you help? You know you can save me You know you could love me but hate is all you gave me
What will you do now you’re having fun? Alienate me more that you’ve already done So long as you’ve got friends and a bottle to drink You can live life without having to think
To think What have you done? The end Is sure to come
Now you’ve come of age at last It’s time now to forget your past Keep your hair clean and fix your face Now you are in your place Nice, systematic, cool, controlled I’m afraid I’m not that old Nice….systematic….cool….controlled Transformation When you get old – time to change again It’s a shame – there’s no remain – of your brain
Some things I can stand Some things I cannot But you are just sitting there Taking everything I’ve got So I use my free speech Make sure I have my say But the media distorts my every word So I can’t get away I say it’s bad stuff They say I say fair enough Is it fair? Is it enough?
6th June 2023 – I feel like I was being an everyman with ‘the media distorts my every word.’ My own personal views were never represented in media but those I aligned with often were. I don’t think this was about a particular incident, or at least I can’t remember it now but a very vague generalisation.
Have you got a cigarette for me to smoke? If I don’t have one soon I think I’ll choke The doctor says I should give up the weed He says they will make my lungs bleed – I try to breathe out but I always wheeze – Have you got a fag? Oh, please!
I always take a bag to the shop ‘Five thousand fags please’, I never stop All these little kids asking for a fag But I tell them that I need every drag – I try to breathe out but I always wheeze – Have you got a fag? Oh, please!
It got so bad I was seriously ill My throat was blocked, I couldn’t swallow a pill Lying on a hospital bed, still wanting a drag But now I’m really dying for a fag
Mastery exam is a sham Mastery test, mastery test Mastery exam is a sham Mastery test, mastery test I want a job, I want a job Failed the exam, failed the exam Sham
Read the papers and hear the news Someone’s point of distorted views When someone says it’s worse than you think You’d better believe it, you never saw the missing link
6th June 2023 – I so want to fix that last line, what a nightmare! In 1984 we didn’t have mainstream media – there was just media and it was mostly news with doses of opinion. Not much entertainment but that would soon be coming. There was no mainstream media because there wasn’t much in the way of alternative media, at least not easily discoverable. Anyway, I was already distrustful.
Enjoy and enjoy your life It’s the only one you’ve got Enjoy yourself but don’t shit on others Save yourself, it’s worth a lot So when someone hits you in the eye Just get up and cry ‘I’m only gonna die!’
4th June 1984 – I’d already figured out life’s pointlessness but it hadn’t started crippling me yet. I hadn’t heard of Stoicism or memento mori yet either.
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