Work

by Devina a Lemon flavoured Jellybean

Poetry challenge 3

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They scream and they fight

Foreign labourers are stealing their jobs

Would the government hear their plight?

It’s ironic though, I think,

Many of these said same wronged citizens

Would not face the brazen truth

Most laze and graze on the work

You’ve to scout and drag ‘em

Every other day and yet

At the end it of the week

They demand full pay

Retrogress, stress, loss and pests

The other guys,

They get the job done and they return

Hardly ruckus to raise a fuss

Progress, profits, peace of mind

I say if they must,

They must

You want the job, fellas?

Get your arses up and get busy

Unless

You like biting dust

© Devina S.

I can’t remember exactly what was said but the poem gets to the gist of it.

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9 Responses to “Work”

  1. Devina — that rocked! The only incongruity I felt was the methinks, which felt out of time — but the rest was honest, hard hitting and moving! – bw

    • Pleased you thought so, Bill! I’m fed and up with this nonsense. You see, there’s this new hotel being built in the city and the gov’t got people from the States (I can’t be too sure though) and it was in the papers how my fellow countrymen were raising some hell that they didn’t get in on it. Some people don’t realize how lucky they are, other guys badly want to earn a living and are willing to work for it. As they say: you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.

      Hmmm, I have to admit you’re right. It was ever since I read The Three Musketeers I couldn’t use it enough. Thanks for the input :)

  2. Good job. A bit harsh considering that the cause of employment shift is far beyond the worker stage. Although, that is part of it. It is not the only part. We are destroying the economic base in this country by allowing our manufacturing and even our service industries to be shifted to other countries. GE, for example, is moving an entire plant to China and letting go thousands of employees here. And, if you don’t know this, the CEO of GE is on Obama’s committee to keep jobs in the U.S.. And, Obama is funding with tax payer money plants in S. American and oil wells to be run by others not Americans. We have a cancer within and there are traitors at the helm of state.

    • Actually, Mr. Kuhn, I’m not from the US but from Guyana, South America. I’m saying that Guyanese are crying out when the government are employing external labour because they themselves won’t jet the job done in the first place.

      But going back to what you were saying, there’s been drilling for oil over here but I’m not positive if it’s US operations. I get what you’re saying. It makes no sense to move businesses overseas when Americans need the jobs, it’s backward if you’d asked me.

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