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The title says it all. This poem, along with the two others, appeared in Kingswood Regional High School's 1998 Literary Magazine Dark Kaleidoscope.

Contemporary Ballad of the Apathetic Worker 1997

by Peter Sheedy        

Been a union man
half a dozen years
you'd think I'd know by now.
Don't you bother fight
of the labor's right
won't matter anyhow.
 
Rich man's rich,
Poor man's poor
Just how it's got to be.
We'd be better off
not to even think
of improved society.
 
They've been 'round
two hundred years
and cap'lists still goin' strong
We'll tolerate
this laissez faire
Mr. Marx, I'm afraid you're wrong.
 
It would be nice
to think someday
we'll need not worry 'bout class.
Decisions to made
in our hearts
not dictated by the mass.
 
Socialism, Liberalism
Capitalism, 'Servatism
Communism and the rest
We'll stick with our
comfortable tradition
won't matter which is best.

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